Practice Makes Perfect Peace
If you are like me, you have periods in your life where instead of the presence of God, you feel rather, what in our perception, seems like the absence of God. Of course we know that God will never leave us or forsake us. If we know this as truth, then why are there these seasons when God feels so far away and we feel our prayers never go any further than our lips? I wish I could tell you I had the answer. All I can say is that I believe the issues that overcome us, do just that....overcome us. They remove our focus from God. So if we remove our sight from God and put it on the problems that come against us, then of course we don't feel God or see Him. It is not Him that has left, it is our loss of focus. This is easy for me to write of course, but much harder to comprehend and change. In the past few weeks, I have experienced numerous waves of struggles and worry. (I know we are not supposed to worry, but again....human) I...
