more of you and less of me

I've been having a hard time lately settling my thoughts. Even though my body may be at rest, my mind seems to buzz at a hundred miles an hour.

I've sensed the Lord inviting me to be still and know that he is God. My heart longs for this. My mind does not seem to allow me to have this. I've tried to "capture every thought", but that seems impossible as there are so many of them, and no sooner have I caught one than it escapes again or another goes whizzing by.

God has a better idea for me. I was given the image of a thread, connected to me and floating away from me. At the end of the thread is a thought. In this image, a scissor simply snips the thread and the thought floats away. Gone. But there are more threads. One at a time, they can be snipped. I have not been able to have them all snipped in one sitting, but there certainly has been something very freeing about visualizing those threads simply floating off into oblivion. I have no responsibility to chase after them or do anything with them.

And with each thread snipped, there is more room for closeness with God. John 3:30 in the NLT says "He must become greater and greater; I must become less and less".

-Candice