- Lord, my world is spinning with so many changes. Calm my spirit and help me only have eyes for You. Too many things and feelings are clamoring for my attention. I know intellectually that only One Thing is needed. Please get me from here to there, so that I many live each moment in the secret place...totally at peace...totally full of Your Joy. "In Your Presence Lord is fullness of Joy." I seek the fullness of Your Presence. I always want to remember the words of the song by Housefires:

"You're a good, good Father. It's Who You are. It's Who You are. It's Who you are. And I'm loved by You. It's who I am. It's who I am. It's who I am."

I want always to live out of this simple truth.

+My Goodness...My Faithfulness know no bounds. I'm never one thing one moment and another at another moment. I am steady. I am One. I am at the heart ...the core of everything you are. I know you so much better than you know yourself (or anyone else for that matter! This is always a critical thing to remember. You don't really know anyone's mind or heart.This is why it's so extremely important not to judge!) I don't want you judging yourself either! What I want is your child-like trust. When you cultivate Joy and Trust and Thanksgiving, you are insuring that you are not vulnerable to the winds and waves of each changing day. There is no change in this place of constancy. I never change. You are IN Me. And so the things that could buffet your mind and heart have been prohibited from gaining entry. This is True - A Mighty Fortress IS Your God! You've not really seen fortresses in your life, but you have seen them in movies. So, imagine a huge- impenetrable, walled-in fortress. This is Who I am to you. This is where you REST...unconcerned and unmoved as you live your life in Me.

And so, my dear one, know that indeed, you are My dear one. Think of all the ways this identity impacts your life. Daughters of royalty are well cared for. They are protected. Favor precedes their every move. You are Mine. You belong to Me. My Love keeps you safe and fills you with Peace. Light fills you. No matter where you go...darkness is dispelled. Living water bubbles out of you...you have no thirst - your needs are quenched. You live in Fullness...the satisfaction of the Kingdom. No weapon forged against you will ever prosper. No buffeting winds or raging storms of change can penetrate the massive, protective walls of My Love. You are IN ME. this thought...this Truth is what insures your Peace. Peace! Be still! I am your God.