Who needs Netflix when our minds come up with the most fanciful fiction. Collections of nightmarish narratives run wild through our minds. What a noisy bunch of invaders they are, these scary squatters.  They darken the light and pinch the soul.  They maneuver us into a fog of fears, mind and spirit in full contradiction.
       ------G. Hill

My mind may be obsessed with idols and wants, fears and doubts; my will may be enslaved to habits; my body may be consumed with appetites. But my spirit will never find rest until it rests in God. 
          ------John Ortberg

Author Bob Goff warns us not to allow the fog of uncertainty to keep us from new beginnings. Uncertainty mobilizes us.  It steers us out into a knowing space where God is waiting.

What does God want me to know?  

I know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.
            ------Parker J. Palmer

Embracing it all. 

I found numerous thoughts on embracing the entirety of life and this one by Elizabeth Gilbert made me smile: 

Embrace the glorious mess that you are. Just be . . ..
         --– Elizabeth Gilbert

Being . . .

Life can be messy.  My thoughts can be messy---all over the place, concocting negative scenes I do not want to materialize.  Each day I inhale life's contradictions. My numbered tomorrows are clouded with incessant drizzles of "I do not know . . . I do not know . . . I do not know. . ."

But finally, I realize these uncertainties matter little.  And I choose not to dwell in fear. I exhale life's angsts and trade the litany of things 'I do not know' for the knowledge that I AM KNOWN.
       -----G. Hill

My Knowing Space

A place to put my head to rest, 
All my cares to be addressed, 
Without asks, just as I am,
Unmasked, a weary lamb,
My loving Shepherd 
Who knows me best.
       ------G. Hill

When I trust deeply that today God is truly with me and holds me safe in a divine embrace, guiding every one of my steps I can let go of my anxious need to know how tomorrow will look, or what will happen next month or next year. 
         ------Henri Nouwen

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The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
       ------Psalm 23

See also: Picture a Prayer and I Am From . . .

Picture a Prayer

I Am From . . .