Stressed or concerned yet? Going crazy? What day are we on of this home-bound quarantine? How many days do we have to go? So many thoughts and questions concerning quarantine.
The biggest one for me is how to manage my spinning thoughts around what the future will look like. ALL MY PLANS hinge on how this Corona virus plays out, here and around the world. So many “I don’t knows” right now. That is an uncomfortable place to prop yourself for any length of time.
This morning as God woke me up EXTRA early, He told me to turn on my portable speaker and listen. That the words to the melody had plans to minister to my soul and mind on this very day. So, I obeyed. I am SO GLAD I DID. As I listened He revealed song after song that spoke directly to all of my questions. They calmed the storm within me and reminded me of the bigger STORY. The story where I am not the author, and the one who is… well, He is OH-SO TRUSTWORTHY. It helped me to just breathe and find rest in not having to know, just needing to follow.
I decided to go ahead and take the morning worship song list and make it into a playlist on Spotify to share with all of you. I’d love to hear ideas of songs you would add to it. In fact, you can just pop on over and add it yourself because I made it a collaborative playlist. Here is the link: Spotify Playlist - Time to Worship: Quarantunes (please keep the list child friendly and Jesus centered)
I plan on running through this quarantine music playlist a few times a day… reminding myself that God is not surprised by this. He already has in mind what He is going to do about it. There is purpose in EVERYTHING. So the question is then, how do we show up in it? What does he have in mind for us to do in the space of it?
It is SO EASY to fill our heads with ideas of what our culture says will bring us peace, success, stability, comfort, and happiness. The fact is though, most of those things when acquired are very short-lived if fulfilling at all. So, let’s apply that thought to our current situation. WHAT IF God has different ideas for us than what we had been setting out to do? Wouldn’t this be THE PERFECT time to sit with him, soak in a little of His love, reconnect and LISTEN? I think this is a thing of beauty!
I am not saying this season is easy. I am not saying it is a good thing even. I am saying let’s make the MOST out of it! Let’s use these still days to allow God to speak to us. May we have eyes to see, ears to hear and willing minds to follow.
Listen to this song list and ask those very questions. He’ll speak to you, I just know it.
Psalm 46 The Message
A Song of the Sons of Korah
46 1-3 God is a safe place to hide,
ready to help when we need him.
We stand fearless at the cliff-edge of doom,
courageous in seastorm and earthquake,
Before the rush and roar of oceans,
the tremors that shift mountains.
Jacob-wrestling God fights for us,
God-of-Angel-Armies protects us.
4-6 River fountains splash joy, cooling God’s city,
this sacred haunt of the Most High.
God lives here, the streets are safe,
God at your service from crack of dawn.
Godless nations rant and rave, kings and kingdoms threaten,
but Earth does anything he says.
7 Jacob-wrestling God fights for us,
God-of-Angel-Armies protects us.
8-10 Attention, all! See the marvels of God!
He plants flowers and trees all over the earth,
Bans war from pole to pole,
breaks all the weapons across his knee.
“Step out of the traffic! Take a long,
loving look at me, your High God,
above politics, above everything.”
11 Jacob-wrestling God fights for us,
God-of-Angel-Armies protects us.
We can choose to wrestle our own way through this, or we can seek God’s wisdom and find His peace in the thick of this. Praying these songs for quarantine will help you to slow down your worries and fears and find rest for your weary soul.
Be well,
Kimber