Yesterday was an odd day reentering the day to day life of home.  I canned 40 lbs of green beans which profited 76 pints.  The ones I grew in my garden are being eaten by voles which I’m hoping I can eradicate before they do too much more damage.  Being so engaged in the canning I didn’t make connection with anyone except those that called or texted me.  Today is the day I will make connections with the projects (drama) of home.  I use the term drama because home always seems to have drama in it.  I try to see it rationally but it does drain me more than I realize for when I’m gone, as I was recently, I relax more thoroughly and get refreshed.

Today in my devotions I found myself not wanting to reenter some of the drama that awaits.  I was journaling about this with God when He seemed to say that I need to look at it differently now that we are intimately connected.  Always before I have seen drama as messes which man makes.  If I am asked to assist with it I do the best I can but I get emotionally caught too.  God, today, asked me to realize like I never have before, we are going into this drama together.  I am never alone as He is always with me.  When we do this together I am actually bringing Him into the drama.  I’ve not seen this as such until now.  When life is causing chaos it is not different than when the disciples were scared to death in the storm on the Sea of Galilee.  They awoke Christ and He calmed the storm.  The presence of God always calms the troubled storms whether they are in one’s mind or physically present.  Seeing that God wants us to be His calming presence gives vigor to the walk when one is heading into a storm.  Today I will do this as God directs.  How I love my God and Savior.