A soul at rest

I have been studying what it means to be a woman of simplicity. God is showing me what it means to live simply in devotion to God and is giving me a soul at rest through trusting my heavenly father's loving hands. I'm learning how to take off my heavy yoke, lay it at His feet and put on his light and joyful one. It's a blessing to sit in quietness with God, to hear him and be heard. Life has seemed quite busy this past year with struggles, triumphs, miracles, and I'm thankful that God's grace filled it all. What I've loved most recently is the peace that covers everything more than ever before. With trusting God comes a strange inner peace that engulfs all things. I love psalm 131 and the picture it paints of a man who has chosen to have a peace deeply rooted in his soul. 

"My heart is not proud, O Lord,

my eyes are not haughty;

I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me.

But I have stilled and quieted my soul;

like a weaned child with its mother,

like a weaned child is my soul within me.

O Israel, put your hope in the Lord

both now and forevermore." Psalm 131

"His heart is not lifted up; his eyes do not look enviously and hungrily to the heights beyond him; he does not dwell in anxious, wearisome thought on matters which are best left alone; he concentrates his sympathies and his energies on that which demands his attention, and which is productive of good to himself and those around him; he is perfectly contented to be just what God has made him, to go where his Master sends him, to do what is placed in his hands to do. He is so far from thinking of himself essential to the prosperity of the Church and the redemption of the world, that he hopefully, and even confidently, leaves that in the care of the Supreme." E.R. Conder and W. Clarkson

Love

Hannah