When life gets stressful where does your mind go?
Do you have a happy place you can think about that will bring calm and order?
I have learned in the last five years to allow my mind to go to my happy place. It took a little effort to find my happy place which is the Garden Tomb in Isreal. I tried other beautiful place we have been, but I had a hard time keeping my mind on them. In searching for a happy place, I learned a lesson God wants me to walk in daily.
The truth was that a mind focused on me or others would not bring me the peace I needed. It's only when my mind is focus on Him.
Below are some scriptures which backs up this truth.
- There is a bus depot just outside the Garden Tomb, but you do not hear the buses coming and going while you are in the garden. For hours my husband and I had walked all around the old city walls then inside the city walls we walked even more, saw where every religion said Jesus was buried here and here and here. All those places were filled with noise and did not bring peace to our hearts. They did not align with scripture either.
- But the Garden Tomb was a little touch of heaven in a loud busy world. As I sit wishing I could sit forever on the ledge I knew in my heart that was not what God wanted us to do. My husband and I were needed to be that touch of heaven wherever God places us. We needed to live the gospel outside the Garden Tomb.
- That Happy Place lives in my heart and soul and I can visit that place any time.
- Peace resides in me because of what is written on the door of the tomb.
- He is not here, He is risen.
"We needed to live the Gospel outside the Garden Tomb." Oh, Betty, but what a touchstone the Lord has given you to be able to do just that! May you always treasure this memory that inspires you to move forward and spread the good news with others who are perishing. Blessings and Happy New Year!
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