My Happy Place
I just love nature, and I love sitting anywhere in nature. My favourites are sitting by a beautiful stream or lake, or in a big park with lots of greenery and flowers. I’m sure you like sitting in nature, too. But maybe you like something a little different, like going to the mountains or watching the waves of the ocean moving in and out.
Everyone is different. But one thing is for sure. It doesn’t matter where you are, taking time off to go and sit in nature has a wonderful effect on you. It is so calming.
My son and I went to a lake recently to just sit and vegetate, and talk to the Lord. We bought something to eat while we were there, and took our devices so that we could journal.
It was so beautiful to just sit and do nothing for a while. As I looked around at the beautiful calm water in the lake in front of me, the tall trees and the ducks on the lake, I could have sat there for hours. I just let all my cares go and rejoiced in the beauty of the Lord’s creation.
Doing something like this is very important, especially if you are going through a time of stress or upheaval. Why is this? Because it helps you to focus on the Lord and restore your peace.
I call a scene like this my ‘happy place’ with the Lord. I feel His presence and He feels close and assuring to me. But you can’t always be in nature to be able to spend time with the Lord. That’s when you need to use your imagination and create a happy place in your soul.
No matter where you are: at home, at work during your lunch break, or traveling in a car, if you are stressed or your soul is in turmoil, you can go to your happy place, even for a few minutes if you are strapped for time.
In my book Always Blessed, I share about what my happy place is. Here is an excerpt from the book from Chapter 12.
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Each person is different, and my happy place with the Lord might be completely different from yours. But that is fine. What matters is that it is a special place, where just you and Him can sit and share together.
My happy place has changed somewhat from sitting by the lake. It is now a beautiful enclosed garden, where I can sit on a swing seat, and the Lord is sitting next to me.
It has flowers all along the wall. It also has a bird feeder in the middle of the garden with running water, where the birds can come and bathe and frolic in the water.
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Do you have a happy place where you can escape to when the difficulties or stresses come? If you don’t, why not make such a place. Then you can run there and feel the Lord’s peace and assurance filling you up.
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