peace like a river

in the past few weeks, it feels like drew and i have been running around a bit frantic. we are thankful that are lives are full, that we are surrounded by adventures and fun and such times of joy, but, it has been exhausting. i am sure you've experienced a similar time in life, when every night is busy and there is no time for rest. sitting in church, early for once, i listened to the music as lunden mcgill played guitar and sang. and these words just sort of rushed out of me and i jotted them on paper. sharing them now in case you need to hear them, as i did. 

come, friends, let us sit. let us be still. 

let our minds slow down, our hearts stop racing, our to-do lists fall by the wayside. 

come, friends, let us be peaceful. 

let our questions and fears and anger and guilt and often unbearable hurt and our anxieties rise up, boil up and over and right on out of us. 

let us be quiet. let us be still. 

let the questions run out of steam, like a train on a track, until the wheels stop turning completely, and peace washes over us. 

peace, like a river. let us be the rocks and the lord the river, coolly and beautifully flowing over us, mere rocks. cleansing us, refreshing us. giving us purpose and refuge and beauty. 

without the glory of the clear water, without the river, we are merely rocks - heavy, ugly, burdensome, clumped together... dry. 

let the floodgates open and the peace rush on down. let the cool waters bind us together - for that is how we were designed, to be together. 

peace like a river, for anyone willing to take it. 

i wish for you, my friends, peace, like a river.