You know when you have those moments you can’t stop thinking about a particular person, place, conversation, occurrence, situation, etc.? You do anything in your power to remember the words said, to remember the way the sun shined, or to simply imagine the “what if’s”. Your mind keeps playing out the memories or the day dreams over and over. The constant focus on this particular subject has your head in the clouds.

And then, there’s always that one person who snaps you back into reality. Or maybe they don’t exactly snap you back into reality, but they simply get frustrated with your constant worry, and that’s when you go write a blog post. And the writing of the blog post seems to help put your mind at ease once again. When your mind is at ease, is when you begin to admit out loud that having your head in the clouds isn’t necessarily the grandest and healthiest thing for one’s mind and emotions to be dwelling on for an extended amount of time.

I’m reading a book right now called “Dating Mr. Darcy”, written by Sarah Arthur. I won’t explain what the book is about, because my explanation would be awfully lengthy. However, I wanted to bring up that within this book, the author talks about reflection as a big part about self discovery. And one step of reflection is solitude. “But solitude is more than just being alone; it’s being alone in silence so we can really concentrate on what God and our hearts are telling us.” This quote pretty much convicts me to the core. I was reading this chapter and thinking, oh yeah, I reflect ALL the time, I’m so great at this. Feeling pretty good about myself. And then after reading this quote for the second and third time, the word SILENCE screams at me. Sure I think about things. I actually think about anything and everything way too much. To the point where I’m in constant worry. However, reflecting in silence in my opinion is very different. Reflection in the midst of silence is when Psalm 46:10 is being lived out. “Be still and know that I am God.” I say I reflect all the time, but in all honestly I’m just setting myself up for a bunny trail in my relationship with God. What I’m trying to get at is that the best type of reflection is the one when you truly escape to a place of silence. Turn off electronics, get away from the meowing cat, lock yourself in your bedroom alone if you have to. God calls us to be still. And I believe being still is one of the steps to being able to begin living your life again.

So, my mind is tired and I tried to sound all deep and wordy. And seeing that I’m not really a writer, and my brain isn’t thinking too clearly, this blog post probably doesn’t make too much sense. However, it helped me clear my head and God helped me get back on His track.

I do hope God uses this to encourage you in some way. To Him be the glory. Whose way? His way! Psalm 46:10.