FRIDAY 13TH = BANDWIDTH STRETCHED

Today's third day of my elective homebound status, mixed with cabin fever and way too much TV, including a National Emergency Declaration by our President, has had me stretched!
Stretched out of control.....as if I ever had control!
So...what have I learned.

• First, I am "elderly"----just ask the CDC.
• My pulmonary obstructive airways disease is a risk factor for contracting the coronavirus.
• Pandemics are epidemics jumping borders of countries worldwide.
• Pandemics can cause panic.
• I do not have to panic.

What is the take-a-way?

I, and you, don't have to let extraneous worries of our current pandemic declaration "mess" with our personal bandwidth! As my dotsydetails 2017 entry shared, & as Carol N. often reminds me, our bandwidth can be stretched beyond our energy or mental capacity----even to disabling our ability to  handle our actions appropriately.

Remember God's bandwidth is inexhaustible! Ever present.
Therefore ever-present verses can offer comfort, especially when needed in the night watches.
God is our refuge and strength, an ever present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear......(Psalm 46:1-3)
He is a God who is near.  (Jeremiah 23:23) Omnipresent.

Knowing His Word, reminds me that He holds me fast in love, (Psalm 91:14); He scrutinizes my path and my lying down and is intimately acquainted with all my ways, (Psalm 139:3); having enclosed me behind and before, (Psalm 139:4); and can "instruct me and teach me, in the way I should go; and counsel you (me) with His eye upon you (me). (Psalm 132:8)

God is an ever-present bandwidth. Amen to that on this Friday the thirteenth!

Monday Mind Seeks Refuge

2/22/10 Our inner refuge is where we go when the world gets to be too much. It’s the place we turn to when the hurts /concerns seem to drive us away. It’s a place without walls. It’s our mind. That’s where our reasoning power resides. It also houses our beliefs and opinions and lots of feelings. To me it can only hold so much---something that seems to lessen with age. Thus it needs to be filled with “worthy” thoughts. A Monday Mind. That’s what meditating Mondays are about---filling our minds with His word which is worthy. We create a refuge of thoughts. Then the right thoughts are there when we need them.

Today fill your mind to capacity with His truth.....

God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear,
though the earth give way
and the mountains fall
into the heart of the sea
though its waters roar and foam
and the mountains quake
with their surging.

(Psalm 46:1-3)

.....and your mind will find refuge.