Grounded like the Baobab

I graduate from college in 1 week. I am shutting a chapter on the last 5 years of my life, and the sad but apparent truth has hit me that many of the people that have been a part of my life the past years, I may never see again after next weekend. Given, I know the particular people who will most definitely transfer over into the next chapter, yet still a scary thought. Especially since I have no idea the makings of that next stage I'm about to embark on. I guess it's just what happens...but I really stink at change. 


I've been in this place lately of trying to stop thinking about the past, because it's gone and over. I'm excited for what's next, but I need to try to stop worrying about the future because it's uncontrollable and unknown. I'm trying to just live in this moment, here and now.  I get like this sometimes... contemplative..quiet (yeah, me), where I just think about what's happening around me. I refer to them as my "life moods." :)


I was realizing as I thought today, that what I need cannot be found in earthly things. The comfort I'm looking for, the hole I need filled cannot be done so by friends, things, deep conversations or men. I need God, and His word. At times, and in the past especially, I look to people to ground me. The reality is that other  people are the last place I should be looking toward. Comfort and grounding need to reside from the Lord and from within. I just need to TRUST that it's going to be ok and things will work out as they should. Saying I need to trust, and actually doing it are two different things, and today I just needed a reminder of where my trust needs to be. 


 After a rough day, and after reading the quote and  verses below, I feel officially re- grounded. I pray to be grounded like the Baobab tree, with roots that run deep and branches that continue to grow. 

Finish each day and be done with it.  You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.  Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Job 17:9
“The righteous keep moving forward, and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger.” (NLT)


Proverbs 16:3
“Commit your works to the LORD
And your plans will be established.


Romans 12:2
“Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.” (NLT)


Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” (NIV)


Hope that if your in need of any grounding today, these verses helped you like they helped me.
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