This time of year is rough for some.

Family? Can’t get them all together.

Kids? Spread out and miss seeing them.

Money? Non existent!

Anybody relate???

Then there are the memories. Man do they ever overtake you!! Memories of my momma and my aunts in their homemade puff paint Christmas sweatshirts. Memories of Christmas morning as my kids got up and unwrapped the presents.

All of this and more can keep us up ALL NIGHT LONG! The fear, the sadness, the uncertainty of the future that clutches at our heart and makes it hard to breathe. At least it does me. Anyone else with me???

Sometimes, I lay awake worried about simple things, hard things, non existent things that my mind is making up as we go along!

And this time of year, it only gets worse!

But you know what? I have to stop. I have to reign in those thoughts and remember that He is in control of ALL these things. (Even the nonexistent ones 😂)

Psalms 119:62 says “At midnight, I will rise to give thanks to You…”

Psalms 3:4 says “I cried to the Lord with my voice and He heard me from His holy hill.” BUT….

The very next verse, Psalms 3:5 says “I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the Lord sustained me.”

My friends, I am not saying that we won’t have those nights. I’m not saying that the fear and uncertainty will just disappear like magic. I am saying He alone can ease those feelings.

He alone can sustain us through the night.

So next time one of those nights creep up, cry to the Lord and He WILL hear you.

He WILL sustain you.

Until next time…