Peace And Serenity

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 There's still something in this life for me to do; so far, i keep trying to find it on my own and this searching based on my own design leads me to disappointment.  There's nothing--other than my coffee and Bible in the morning--that is worth getting up for.  My past has done its part.  Now i'm trying to get my present in gear.  i keep stalling out.  Each day is having enough trouble of its own. --[Matthew 6:34]

Sometimes i wish for the Wedding to begin and i'd be home.  i want to receive that crown of glory which does not fade away--[1 Peter 5:4].  A job here, a job there throughout the years; and especially within the past two years has fallen very short of glory.  Therefore humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time--[1 Peter 5: 6]

It's not about the commutes and the rude bus drivers who pass you by when you're right there at the bus stop or the no-class-low-class coworkers and the lousy air conditioner at work that makes me feel i'm laboring in a refrigerator--i find when i turn my thoughts to God i get that sense of peace and serenity.  At this point in my life, the J-O-B and the Motormouth Motel could never offer me that peace and serenity i'm longing for.

i'm talking to Him more, casting all my cares upon Him, for he cares for me----[1 Peter 5: 7].  i'm ready for His design and His plan and i pray to Him to give me the patience and the only thing i can do in this worldly maze is put my cares and sorrows at the foot of the cross.  My Savior took care of all of them even before i was ever born.  And it's that hope that really gives me peace and serenity.  Today i want to be just another vapor that appears for a little while, then vanishes away--[James 4:14] when i walk into that refrigerator today.

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