Day 13: Do you hear the Shaking?

Shaking out the rugs . . .

Is that even a thing anymore?

It was one of the few chores that I actually looked forward to as a child: another way to get outside and catch the breeze! My Mom would pile up all the rugs in the house before she ran the "sweeper," as we called our vacuum in Small Town Indiana. And my job was to stand on the porch and shake all the dust out of those old throw rugs. Sometimes I got so caught up in watching the sky, or listening for the birds that the rugs were a little too well shaken out.

I think I know how those rugs might have felt. 

There are days when I look skyward now,

and I am the one 

being shaken and tossed.

And I find myself asking my Lord if this shaking

isn't just a little TOO WELL done?

 But if I let myself listen, with ears that are open,

I hear his response:

Isaiah 54:10 (NIV) Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

And, OH! how I want to believe Him.

But . . . 

This world feels just a little too unsafe,

the hatred all around feels too heavy to bear,

and the shaking of this globe where my feet are planted

seems to worsen by the moment.

And my own days?

Well too much shaking is just too much! I say.

  

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But my heart has been pierced by His Word yet again,

and in listening to the very next passage,

my thoughts are filled with HOPE:

 Isaiah 54:11-13 “Afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted, I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise, your foundations with lapis lazuli. I will make your battlements of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones. All your children will be taught by the Lord, and great will be their peace. 

The media will tell you that we are bound for 

destruction: a highway to nowhere.

 But God would speak to us that the SHAKING is not 

the final word.

 AFTER the shaking, comes the promise of His Love,

and the Hope for a city rebuilt for

Eternity.

Are you being tossed by the shaking also?

Open your eyes, and hear with your ears,

because there is a 

Love Song

being played just for you, right here,

under the sound of this shaking world,

Where the Love of Your Lord can NEVER be shaken.

This is Day 13 for the #Write31Days Challenge.

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#31Days of Listening with Chronic Illness

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