A Broken World

It’s often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom of our words that we are able to effect the most profound in the people around us. When we listen, we offer attention and the opportunities for wholeness.

Loss, grief, disappointment, fear, alienation, hatred, and insecurity that bring the spirit of discrimination and violence that tear painfully and tragically at the very fabric of society. Not one of us escape the wrenching blows that are part of human life.

In today’s world, humanity cried out in its distress, and it’s diseased comfort for answers and exclamations of hope.

In the United States, we are experiencing one of the most unsettling seasons in at least this generation. And this season isn’t over yet. Actually wait to see what comes from our political leaders. There is still much unsettling and uncertainty.

An hour and take Noley, listening to people, and being fully present with them, we know that brokenness and division, resentment and anxiety, distrust and disillusionment run deep through many hearts.

We indeed live in a broken world. But we still believe in healing. There still exists a culture in which healing can be sown, and redemption can be found and broken pieces can be fused back together again.

In this especially unsettled season, our fervent hope, along with heart felt prayer is in all of us.

While everyone of us Carrie’s with us burdens of shame, guilt, regret, worry, and unrealized dreams. We need to stand together for we have more in common with one another than what separates us from one another.

We used to respect each others differences now we can’t see past them.

This is not the world I grew up in

“United We Stand Divided We Fall.”

Don’t Let People Have Power Over You

Any time you allow someone to have a negative influence over the way you think, feel, or behave, you give them power over you. You let yourself become the victim.

Sometimes it’s subtle. Maybe you change the way to act around certain people because you want to please them, and it doesn’t impact your life to much.

Perhaps it’s a major change, you allow a loved one’s harsh criticism to take a serious toll on your wellbeing.

Either way, it comes down to giving away your personal power and it drains your mental strength that you need to be the best version of you.

So, what do you do to stop giving your power away. Here’s something’s I have done.

  • Establish Some Healthy Boundaries

We’ve all met that person who wastes your time venting about how much they hate their job, or that friend who always asks to borrow money. Whether their taking your time or your money you have a realize if you allow it, it will continue.

You have to learn to say “no.” This was a difficult one for me, because I thought that by saying “no” people would not like me. When people violate your boundaries, follow through with the consequences.

  • Take Responsibility Foe Your Actions

Don’t blame anyone else for making you feel guilty or making you feel bad about yourself. Take full responsibility for how you feel.

If someone is affecting your emotions in a unhelpful manner, take positive action. Either change the situation or change how you respond to the situation. Learn to walk away or change your environment. If you can not do either of those things take a few deep breaths, and practice using some positive self-talk and continue to engage in a difficult conversation. I found that walking away, has worked for me. It’s a definite message that many understand. Even if it’s going to another room.

  • Let Other People Be Responsible For Their Emotions

Don’t take responsibility for another person’s emotions. You can’t make everyone happy. While it’s important to be conscious of how your actions affect others, it’s not up to you to mange how other people feel.

  • Acknowledge Your Choices

When you find yourself thinking you have to do something, change your language. You don’t have to go grocery shopping. And you done have to take the dog to the veterinarian. These are choices.

Even going to work and paying your bills are choices. Of course, there are consequences if you don’t do these things, but acknowledging you have some sayin the matter empowers you to take responsibility for your own life.

  • Live According To Your Values

Identify what’s most important to you. You will care less about going along with the crowd, and you’ll be less concerned about other people’s opinions when you are clear on your values. Identify what most important to you, and live accordingly. Whether that means you value your free time, or working long hours, enjoying you hobbies, or practicing your faith, spend your time and energy on the things that are important to you. When you are confident in your priorities, other people’s judgments will matter less.

  • Forgive, And Move Forward

Holding on to a grudge diminishes your life, not anyone else’s. Don’t waste your precious time and energy rehashing past hurts and trying to punish someone else.

Recognize, that forgiveness isn’t always saying what someone did was okay. It doesn’t mean you have to associate with them. Forgiveness can involve letting go of anger that keeps you stuck so you can focus on more worthwhile things. Life it short don’t spend it in the past.

  • Stop Trying To Prove People Wrong

You might feel empowered for a little while when you say, “I’ll show them!” But trying to prove people wrong actually is giving them power over you.

Trying to show someone that you’re better than they give you credit for is about them, not you. Work on goals that matter to you. If you surprise people along the way, consider that a bonus rather than your main objective.

  • Don’t Let Your Self-Worth Depend On Other People’s Opinions

If you need approval or affirmation from others that you’re good enough, the people will always have power over you. Don’t make your self-worth dependent on anyone else.

Do things that make you feel like a good person and your self-worth will be built on a steadier, more independent foundation.

  • Don’t Waste Time Complaining

The more time you spend complaining about people, the more space you allow them to occupy in your life. So before you dive into a 20-minute monologue about how much you dislike someone, or how annoying someone is, think about the fact that you’ll be devoting more time and energy to them. Choose to use your time and energy on more positive, worthwhile, things.

  • Stop Thinking About Unhelpful Interactions With Others

Rehashing conversations and imagining dreadful interactions allows people to take up more of your brain power. While you certainly want to learn from your mistakes and plan for the future, don’t ruminate on the hurtful things someone has already said or the rude comments they might make in the future,

When you notice these scripts playing out in your head, change your thought process (we are allowed to change our thoughts). Whether this means you need to change some physical activity or it means talking ti someone about a completely different subject, refuse to focus on people who drag you down.

These are some things I’ve done to completely turn my life for the better. I hope they will help you as well.

My Favorite Time Of Day

What’s your favorite time of day?

My favorite time of the day is between 12 – and 5 AM. I love the peace and quiet during these hours. I do my best thinking and reading during these hours. I find that I heard God’s voice more clearly during these hours. It’s when I have the best energy.

There is just nothing better that getting a hot cup of coffee and studying God’s Word in absolute peace.

There is some research some positive characteristics of being a night owl:

  • Creativity
  • Mental and physical stamina
  • Flexibility
  • Intelligence
  • Burst of energy
  • Better reasoning skills
  • Time and commitment to self-development
  • Th Ability to stay focused for longer periods of time

My mind doesn’t shut off on some nights. Thoughts just cycle and then recycle. Some people think that your mind not shut off think it’s stress, which leads to cortisol and cortisol helps you to stay alert. Some day it’s genetics why come are night owls or early birds.

I honestly don’t know that my moods tend to change but I definitely am more awake I don’t have to invest in an alarm clock because I seem to have a built into my situation, I sleep best between 5: AM to 9 AM

The silence is a rare thing around my household. To have peace during the early early hours is a rate gift to read, pray, and listen.

Favorite Recipe

What’s your favorite recipe?

Pork Chili

2 lbs Pork Roast or Loin

1/2 Yellow Onion (chopped fine)

4 Cloves Garlic (minced)

5-6 Fire Roasted Hatch Chilies (cut in pieces)

1 Bottle Green Salsa

4 oz Green Chilies (canned)

1 Tomatillo

1 tsp cumin

1 tsp Oregano

Olive oil (enough to grease the crock pot)

2-4 tbsp Flour

You can sear the pork in a pan to brown but I don’t.

Grease your crock pot

1 Cup of Water or Beef Broth

Add all ingredients and mix it well. cook or 4-6 hours. Until the pork is tender. Take some of the juice out of the crock pot. Mix it well with flour.

Serve with Mexican rice and refried beans. Jalapeños optional.

This World Is Not Our Home

We Are Just Passing Through

So often people fall into the confines of this world’s values and strive through earthly goals. We endeavor to reach the top of our careers; we budget money and invest a chunk of our funds for our retirement; we even collect valuable possessions to feel the status of success. We even believe that these accomplishments are the things we need to fulfill our lives. And believe they are worth the struggle and the endurance. But when you think about it, really think about it this thinking is wrong.

This world is not our home, it’s a temporary place, we’re just passing through. One of my favorite songs is by Carry Underwood, “Temporary Home.”

The pressures to meet the material goals of this world have caused many ti struggle to achieve them in order to “feel successful,’ but this is not a prerequisite set by God.

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroyed and thieves break in the steal…” -Matthew 6:19

Our accomplishments are nothing that we’ve earned or collected here on earth, and our purpose in life should not be focused on getting the . Our eyes, our hearts, and our values should all be on Jesus and what He has done for us, and our goal and our focus should be on Him.

I’m not saying we can’t have nice things, God wants us to be happy on this earth. But when we have to have “the next greatest thing” because someone else has it. There is a problem.

The rewards that we look forward to should not be earthy, they will be given to us by Jesus when we get to heaven and they will last forever.

Many scriptures are taken out of context and some deliberately. To claim a prosperous life on earth, some are preachers. Here are a few:

“Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.” – Psalm 37:4

Many look to earthly riches because we think that this is what God wants for us. Many of us believe that it’s our right to own the wealth on earth, so it’s what they live for.

Another scripture that’s taken out of context is Revelation 5:10,

“And God made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on earth.” – Revelation 5:10

We think that we are entitled to all thatGod has, because we are His children. We take the concept of faith and abuse it as a tool to try to employ God to make us wealthy.

God wants us to be happy, He doesn’t want us to live in poverty. God wants us to a fulfilling life on earth. But, He also wants us to put Him first, and obey Him. He says in 3 John 1-2 that it is will for us to prosper and be in health.

The Bible does not change or compromise its truth. We are the ones who change it to suit our own selfish and unrighteous desires. When our heart lives for Jesus and our goal is to serve Him, He provides thing’s for us. We don’t need to scheme to get them or to make them our quest.

Jesus says in John 14:2, “In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. That’s a wonderful promise. Jesus is in heaven and He’s made homes for each of us there so we can live through eternity with Him.

This world, one the other hand, is coming to it’s end and has become a target for destruction. We don’t need to look to far to see that. It’s falling apart; the crime, poverty, and natural disasters are growing astronomically, and diseases and starvation are becoming nightmares around the world. Things are getting worse every single day. And rightly so because Jesus tells us that we are living in the last days of earths existence.

The earth is not going to get better, it will continue to go downhill until it becomes so corrupt that God will destroy it.

I don’t think it’s a surprise that the earth’s inner core rotation has been slowing significantly it’s spin since 2009.

We can enjoy the good things that is world has to offer, but we cannot be attached to them, they cannot be our reason for living. Because when we are attached and when we live to collect possessions, they become like gods to us.

“You shall have no other gods before me.“ -Deuteronomy 5:7

All the things are ours because He loves us and we should loveHim. We are not part of this world and we should depend upon the things of this world to survive -we should depend on Him for everything. We have nice things but they shouldn’t be our reason for living or our reason to want to stay here.

Our hearts are free to enjoy them or to give them away, or to share. But they are all part of God’s blessing. God promises to supply all of our needs He says in Matters 6:33, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to you.” When we put Him first He blesses us.

This works is not our home. It’s a battleground where Satan in trying to steal, kill, and destroy anyone and everyone so he can keep them from knowing God.

Heaven is our home, heaven should be our goal, because heaven is where Jesus wants us to be – with Him.

What Gets Me Excited

Tell us about the last thing you got excited about.

I know many people don’t like church settings. But, it’s the complete opposite for me.

I walk into my church every Sunday and my heart is completely filled with joy. Most of my family has passed on. So, church is my family.

Church is a place where I can get filled with the Holy Spirit, and bring my guard down because I know I can pretty much trust everyone. There’s something to be said about having that welled up feeling of the Holy Spirit inside you. That’s what excites me. Being close to God, and worshiping him.

Satan’s Weapons Of Destruction

There are four weapons Satan uses in the destruction of the world. They include:

1. Darkness –

“In whom the god of this world (Satan) has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Messiah, who is the image of God, should not be dawn to them.“ – 2 Corinthians 4:4

2. Destruction –

“Who made the world as a wilderness and destroyed its city… you have destroyed your land and slain your people.“ – Isaiah 14:17, 20

3. Deception –

“Their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools…who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator.” – Romans 1:22-23, 25

4. Division –

“For son dishonors father, daughter rises against her mother, daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the me of his own household.“ – Micah 7:6

While God wields the same weapons when He chooses. The difference is: God uses them for good. Satan uses them for harm.

Satan’s idea of an open mind is one that is closed to the Good News of Jesus Christ. Satan kills because it’s his nature to do so. He destroys whole families, and whole cities, to contrast a barrier between the survivors and God.

Surprising your enemy is one of the most well known principles of war. Satan is so good at it that he after deceives people who should know better for their entire lifespan. What a surprise to learn that humans are not so wise after all .

Have you ever wondered if all the bickering in families, in churches, and in societies has a demonic purpose? The world had only started to use biological weapons in the last century, but Satan has been using them for thousands of years.

True believers have engaged in a spiritual battle against these unseen forces of darkness. Paul reminds us in Ephesians 6:13 that “we do joy wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places.” In this ongoing conflict, it is essential to understand the spiritual weapons employed by the enemy, is described in the Bible.

I want to shed some light on Satan’s spiritual weapons and there impact.

  • Blinding of minds – The deception of the god of this world: Satan’s primary weapon is deception as he seeks to blind people from perceiving the truth through worldly distractions, false ideologies, and temptations, he puts a veil on the light of Jesus, preventing unbelievers from embracing salvation and spiritual transformation. He does this by fostering doubt, promoting self-reliance, and amplifying the allure of sin. Believers need to engage in this battle and engage in prayer to counteract the enemies deception.
  • Destruction and Chaos – The wilderness maker: Isiah describes Satan’s destructive nature. Who made the world as a wilderness and destroys its cities “you have destroyed your land and slain your people. Satan seeks to bring chaos and ruin to God’s creation. He manipulates circumstances, incites conflict, and promotes rebellion, leading individuals and societies astray from God’s purposes. In our lives, Satan’s weapon of destruction manifests as despair, broken relationships, addiction, and moral decay. However, through Jesus, believers can stand against this weapon by clinging to the truth, and relying on God’s Word. By cultivating a genuine relationship with Jesus, we can discern the lies of Satan (and his followers) and live in the light of God’s truth.
  • Division– Enemies from within: Micah warns of a distressing reality; When son dishonor’s father, daughter rises against mother… Satan employs this weapon of division, sowing discord and strife even within families and close relationships. This tactic seeks to weaken the unity and love among believers hindering the spread of the Good News of the light of Jesus, and disrupting the work of God. We need to counteract this division by cultivating forgiveness, and practicing humility and fostering reconciliation. Through prayer and the power of the Holy Spirit we can stand firm against Satan’s attempts to sow discord and maintain unity within the body of Christ.

In this spiritual battle it is essential to be aware of Satan’s weapons and tactics. By understanding these four weapons we can equipped ourselves with the “full armor of God.”

1 John 4:4 encourages is, “He who is in you is greater that he who is in the world.”

In this world, a military force that can operate in pitch darkness while it’s enemy sleeps, or falters is practically unbeatable. If that enemy has night vision capabilities and does not sleep while on duty; any gain is negligible.

An enlargement mind is not hoodwinked; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its own dungeon the limits of the universe, and reach its own chain the outer verge of intelligence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

God creates darkness, sometimes clothes Himself in darkness, and at times delivers people into darkness, But He does so for our own good.

Satan, the god of this w, employs various spiritual weapons to deceive, blind, and destabilize humanity. Through deception, ignorance, and instability, he seeks to keep people in spiritual darkness, disconnected from the truth and saving grace of Jesus.

However, believer’s have access to powerful weapons on their own. By embracing the light of the gospel, pursuing knowledge and understanding, biblical truth, and finding stability in Jesus’s love, we can stand firm against the schemes of Satan.

When we find light of Jesus Christ, it is of weapon against deception and the bonding of mind. When we accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. this light illuminates, our lives, dispelling the darkness of sin and ignorance. God‘s word reveals the truth about God‘s love, forgiveness, redemption, and offers hope and salvation to all who believe as believers we had the privilege of responsibility to share the good news of Jesus and he’s light.

Life though faith, Jesus offers reverse and abundant life. Our focus should always be aligning our lives with God’s will and following his teachings.

Truth is knowledge and understanding. The pursuit of wisdom and knowledge is rooted in God‘s word, and is another crucial weapon in our spiritual arsenal with knowledge and understanding, we will be able to discern and recognize the deceitful tactics employed by Satan and the world system. we can develop spiritual windows through which we can evaluate ideologies, philosophies, and trends that contradicts God’s truth. This knowledge and understanding we require equip us to engage in meaningful conversations, defending the faith, and currently leading others to the light of Christ.

Weapons and Destruction

Satan rejoices in this question; if there is a God, Why does He allow so much evil and suffering?

“The perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.” -Proverbs 11:3

“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are a few who found it.” – Matthew 7:13-14

“Their feet run to Evo, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.” – Isaiah 59:7

“A fools lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. A fools mouth is his distraction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.” – Proverbs 18:6-7

“All that is needed for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.“

“I do not believe in immortality the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.” -Albert Einstein.

“If you were to destroy in mankind, the belief of immortality, not only love, but every living force maintaining the life of the world would be dried up. Moreover, nothing then, would be immortal, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.” – German-born Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821-1881.

Utter Destruction of Creation and Humanity

In the spiritual realm, sitting in the world system, employ various weapons to bring destruction upon creation and humanity. The weapons manifest in the form of perverse transgressions, the wide path of destruction, evil deeds, foolishness, love or money, earthly desires, rejection of wisdom, poverty and insatiable greed.

Proverbs 11:3 warned that perverseness of transgressors lead to their own destruction. When individuals choose to deviate from God’s righteous path and embrace sinful ways, they bring harm upon themselves and others. This weapon highlights the importance of seeking wisdom, and following God‘s commandments, and avoiding the allure of sinful desires that ultimately lead to ruin.

In the face of the spiritual weapons of Satan and the world system aimed at the destruction of creation and humanity, it is essential for us to stand firm in our faith and actively resist these destructive forces. We cannot afford to be complacent or ignorant of the tactics employed against us any longer, we need to become more than conquers.

“In all things we are more than conquerors through him that loved with us.” – Romans 8

I want to encourage all of us, as we are, in the midst of going through this that we are more than conquerors through Jesus Christ who loves us.

I dream Of A City

How would you design the city of the future?

I dream of a city called Glory, it will be so bright and fair. When people enter the gates they will cry Holy. The angels will meet we there, carrying you from mansion to mansion. Oh what great sites we will see.

But, we will want to see Jesus the one who died for us. Glory to the Son of God, We will see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob walking on the streets of Gold, the walls of Jasper, Sapphire, Chalcedony, Emerald, Sardonyx, Sardis, Chrysolite, Beryl, Topaz, Chrysoprase, Jacinth, and Amethyst.

We will be in the Messianic Kingdom a city that is 1380 miles by 1380 miles and 350 miles high. There will be no, sin, no suffering or death. Every tear wiped away from our eyes.we will not have a past, and we will have no regrets. There will be a new heaven and a new earth.

We will all be sinless and unified. It in fact will be heaven on earth. No division. A happy ending that lasts forever.

This is what I envision of the city of the future.

Resting In The Lord

Sometimes we wait to rest in the Lord until we are so exhausted that it’s hard to think straight. Do you feel stuck in a troublesome routine. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I feel like every day is the same first with the same results Day-by day, struggling, and as a result we are draining thr happiness and satisfaction from myself.

Sure I can take a nap, but the situation doesn’t change when I wake up. I know many people that feel the same way – their souls are tired. No matter how many hours of sleep they get, their still exhausted.

I think we all need to learn how to rest in the Lord. We do this by placing our lives fully into His hands. Casting our worries, burdens, and discomforts toward Him.

We can rest every night feeling protected. We can proceed in our daily lives knowing that the Lord always watches over us. He has immeasurable power. This is because there is nothing God cannot save or solve, and that includes anything that’s bothering you right now.

Psalm 37:7 reminds us to be still and wait for the Lord’s presence. He loves us so much that He wants to fight our battles if we allow Him to. Our trust in the Lord activates our rest in Him. But, most of the time, our problems circulated and forms bigger when we deny ourselves the assurance only God can give.

In our humanness we forget to give everything to God. We forget that God will take care of all our problems if we trust in Him.

When we choose to struggle, we take everything into our own hands. Meaning we depend on our human abilities to conquer problems. Instances like failures, disappointments, and loss can drive us into darkness. The more we rely on our abilities, the more we question and see our lapses.

This routine gets exhausting; it drains our emotions with the pressure we create out of our reliance on ourselves.

When we give our problems to God, the pressure of our emotions that we cannot control are now in God’s hands. Even when sadness still occur, our eyesight becomes clearer, instead of being upset over our problems we can learn that God is working 24/7 in our lives. And we start feeling excited for what He’s doing. He will unravel everything after the storm. We learn to no longer seethe flaws but appreciate the adventure of the free life God wants us to experience.

You are not fighting the battle alone. We need to remember we cannot carry all our burdens alone and that God can do all things. If we choose to trust in the Lord, all of life’s tiresome twists become blessings.

Interesting Name

Where did your name come from?

My name is Kathrine, which is European, it originates from the Ancient Greek which translates directly to “pure” in English.

While my middle name is Erzsebet which is primarily name of Hungarian origin that means “God is My Oath.” in English is becomes Elizabeth.

This is not saying I’m perfect. But I have a lot to live up to, with that name.

Looking Up From Rock Bottom

Have you ever found yourself at rock bottom? Feeling abandoned? If you have you probably said to yourself, “I can do this alone,” or “I’m not going to depend and anyone but me!” While this s helpful, God made us with the need to live in a world where we need people.

One of God’s first recorded thoughts was about mankind was that it was not good for Adam to be alone. When we try to conquer the world on our own, we often lose perspective in three critical areas:

1. The Physical

2. The Emotional

3. The Spiritual

All three areas in our lives are connected. Science has proven a connection between our physical conditions and our ability to think through complex problems and sort out our emotions.

Notice how when we get tired, we are more irritable and less able to deal with stressful situations and to add fuel to the fire, when we get overwhelmed by emotions, it can hinder our spiritual life, as well as our physical ability to handle what life may throw at us.

When we read Genesis we see that God designed humanity to rest. Six days of work, but the seventh is for rest. Not because God needed a day of rest, but we do. God tells us that the day of rest was for us, not Him.

People need time to stop, rest, and realign our thoughts, minds, and hearts. Permitting ourselves to observe a day of rest helps us find a rhythm between work and rest.

Centuries ago, when there was no electricity, vehicles, or online communication, skipping a day of work was a act of faith. People only had so many hours in a day, so they worked hard for what they needed and let God take care of the rest.

What would it look like if you trusted God to care for you and allowed Him complete control over life? What would your life look like if you stressed less and rested more? In case you needed to hear this: you are not God. You cannot be everywhere all the time, with the ability to do everything. Because we are human, we are limited by time, space, energy, and location. Give yourself that one day of much needed rest.

A day of rest was not designed as a way to get out of work or not work because it wasn’t enjoyable. God created a day of rest to be a purposeful pause that should remind us that we are not in control of our life,

No amount of money can provide is with eternal security. Wealth tricks us into believing that it Carrie’s eternal promises and prosperity when I fact it’s a caricature of God’s eternal promises.

We tend to exhaust ourselves in search of wealth at the expense of most, If not all, areas in our lives, money is a false god many a worshiping. Money on earth is a necessity but our thoughts and attitude towards it determine whether we worship it or use it as a tool in worship to God.

When we’ve hit rock bottom, and feel abandoned we push ourselves to great lengths until we are physically exhausted and overwhelmed. We have to use all our reserve then we crash under the weight of our burnout.

When our activity exceeds our ability to recharge, there are severe consequences. We struggle in the ability to be quiet and still. (No one is immune to this struggle). Psalm 37:7 says, to “Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him. Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

Psalm 40, 10 God says, “Be still and know that I am God.” This should remind us that no matter hoe hard we try to be in control,

God is holy and the ruler of all nations. Being still for the Holy One, when you are at rock bottom, and you will find hope through quiet restful ness.