Staying Focused In Life’s Fire Storm!

Another Friday on fire – a shooting at an Indianapolis Fed Ex ground facility, a young man killed in a confrontation with Chicago Police, the Derek Chauvin/George Floyd trial winding down, more protests and violence in our cities, a vaccine pulled for potential side effects, pulling our troops out of Afghanistan (no doubt for the Taliban to soon take over).

In the midst of all of this, keeping our cool, thinking straight, making rational decisions can be hard. Staying on the track of following God and treating others as created by God even harder!

A few suggestions:

• Make time during your day to be still and pray.
• Read the Psalms.
• Force yourself to have a face-to-face conversation every day.
• Do not look at the news!
• Get outside daily with no technology and just walk.

A fire will burn until it runs out of heat, oxygen, or fuel. Don’t allow yourself to be the fuel for all the fires of our tragic days. Get out of the way, start a new path, set in motion a holy fire and give it the fuel to burn!