The Out of Sync

There are days when it seems that we travel the road leading to "know not where."  Things seem out of kilter and out of sync.  It is as if someone has come into our home and moved all the light switches.  It feels like we are walking into the walls instead of through the doors.  Nothing is right.  Rivers flow up the hill and balls thrown into the air keep going up instead of coming down.  Everything has the sensation of the odd and misplaced.   We wonder why we even got out of bed.  

While we cannot undo our beginnings, we can do something about where we are.  There are many things that pull us away from where want to be.  It could be a nagging broken relationship, or an argument we took to bed with us.  It might be some internal floating unrest about something going on in our workplace.  There are more possibilities than there is white space to list them.  Illness, movement from home or status, or the evening news are just a few of the endless possibilities.   Sometimes what seems the obvious reason has nothing to do with what is throwing our life out of sync.  There are times when sitting for a spell is required to gather the fragmented pieces of our life.  

What we often want to do when we do decide to sit in the silence for quiet moments of reflection is to turn loose our mind to go searching for what is wrong when what we really need to do is to sit quietly and see what it is that comes to us.  Often times what is hidden from us needs space to come from the invisible into the presence of our spirit.  Long centuries ago the Psalmist David wrote, "Be still and know that I am God."   It is a powerful word of invitation to empty our hearts of seeking and sit with the One who called us into being.  It is also the place where brokenness finds wholeness, the stumbling find steadiness, and the out of sync find pieces being fit back together again.