It’s not lost on me that we are wrapping up our Sound Mind series at the same time I have been challenged in my own mind. But It’s been a reminder that we practice our faith, we practice surrender, we practice gratitude, so that it’s there when we need it. It becomes our second skin, the way we interact with God and others.

Writing, even briefly, is one of the best ways to apply the truth we read and hear. It's one of the ways that revelation comes to us. And being a steady person who weathers the regular storms of life with grace and confidence requires a mind regularly exposed to and examined by God's truth.

The objective is to give yourself an opportunity to stop and absorb what God is doing in your life. If you’re not sure what God is doing or saying, that’s an even better reason to practice reflection regularly. It’s like tuning in to a radio, turning the dial a little this way and that, to hear the still, small voice of God that gets drowned out in our own thoughts.