I absolutely love this painting. I have no idea who created it. Please if you know, let me know. I'd love to give credit.

Sooooooooo ... the new not-so-fun news is that my son, a fifteen-year-old high school baseball catcher, who was just awarded the MVP Player and Biggest Hitter Awards for his JV Team (he's a sophmore), and who also received a varsity letter for playing up, is now facing possible menicus surgery. He was playing baskeball last week, got pushed, came down funny, twisting his knee. Major ouch!

For a catcher, knees are pretty important since they spend innning after inning squatting, then standing, dropping to the knees, jumping to the feet ... they're pretty busy.

At first, I totally over-dramatized the situation. No ... not me! Okay here's a summary of my raging thoughts:

"Oh no ... what will we do? He'll never play ball again. He'll be out of play for months, years ... forever. What will I do? I love to watch him play (catch that part? me, me, me) and can't imagine it being over so soon." Blah, Blah, Blah. Notice there wasn't much (anything) in there about how he might handle the worst?

Truthfully, many athletes have this common surgery and go on to have fine athletic careers. I can just fall into this non-trusting God mode, where I think the worst about just about anything (everything?) I think it's called catastrophising (not a word) but you get what I mean.

Thankfully, I'm not like this all the time, but it's sad to admit that I get that way at all considering I belong to the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings. Oh, me of little faith!

Then another thought crosses my mind. What if my son couldn't play baseball period? Would I trust that God knew what He was doing? Would I overcome the disapointment and be a good example for my son and others? Surely, I'd like to believe I would, but the way I was fretting today ...

Isn't it amazing how easy it is to tell someone else to have faith, not worry, and trust God, yet, we can end up in a tizzy over our own circumstances?

My answer: Crawl up into God's lap (figuratively speaking, of course) and spend time in His Word, praying, and praising Him for who He is. He doesn't have to do anything. He just is. That truth is more than enough.

 God loves us no matter what "condition" we are in. When I'm unfaithful, He remains faithful. When I'm unbelieving, He is still real. When I worry, He reminds me to look only at today today.

Freaking out about tomorrow, about anything, isn't worth our time or energy. We would be much better off by spending those wasted minutes in God's presense, for there, we will find rest, hope, and unlimited love.

So, no matter what you're dealing with today, remember, God wants to walk you through it.

Although my situation sounds "small" it was big enough to get my attention. Now, I can choose to stay stuck in my negative thinking or take my thoughts captive and focuss on the Life Changer.

I know what I'm going to do! How about you?

God bless you and keep you.