Are you overwhelmed, stressed and exhausted? Are you having a hard time keeping your ducks in a row, all the plates spinning or all the balls up in the air? When asked, “How are you doing?” is your immediate response, “I’m making it!” or “Well, I’m keeping my head above water!” Do you have a hard time knowing if you are coming or going? Are you looking for an easy answer, a quick fix or some instant gratification?

If that’s you, let’s do an experiment. Imagine you are standing on the fringe of one of Lubbock’s famous playa lakes.  You have an empty, clear jar in your hand and you stoop down and dip it in the lake. The jar swiftly fills with murky water, possibly some mud, a pebble or two, a water bug, and some undetermined rubbish. You bring the now full jar up out of the water and begin to observe it. What do you see? The content of the jar is mucky or cloudy at best. The chunky water is undoubtedly swirling around. And there are questionable items drifting purposelessly without any direction.

Does the jar describe your life?

What if you place the jar on a nearby table? And you sit and monitor the jar. Yes, sit. Still. For a while. Over time the sediment begins to settle to the bottom of the jar. The debris begins to find it’s direction. And the water begins to clear where you can actually see through the jar.

Does the jar describe your life?

Does it describe the life you are looking for?

Perhaps you need to just sit. Be still. Watch.

“Be still, be calm, see, and understand I am the True God.”

Psalm 46:10 (The Voice)