Undefinable Uneasiness

Some days we walk with an uneasiness that is undefinable.  It just seems to show up without any warning.  Perhaps, it is a form of worry that is very deep seated.  It is not always easy to recognize, but after some time of walking with it, there is this sense of being out of step.  Life is lived slightly out of sync as if the center of balance has been lost.  We experience nothing as dramatic as emotional stumbling; instead, there is just this growing sense that something is not right.    

In such moments it becomes a natural thing to move into a kind of prayer that might be characterized as the "without ceasing"  kind of prayer  (I Thessalonians 5:17).  As we become aware of what is happening, the conversation with the One who walks with us begins to grow in us.  And if we walk in this prayer conversation long enough, it will become for us a moment of holy awareness which may not give the reason for the uneasiness but it will give the assurance that we are not alone.    

It is a difficult thing to stand with an overriding spirit of trouble, but still another, to sense that we are alone and no one knows or cares what is happening.  Standing alone without a caring Heavenly Father is not something anyone of us must endure.  We may endure trouble.  We may endure undefinable uneasiness, but we are never alone as we do. This is the promise of the One Who has created us.  Over and over the Word tells us not to to be afraid, but to live with an awareness that the Christ who has come came not for a moment, but for each one of us regardless of when we live and regardless of what seeks to take away our hope and sense of spiritual well being.