Quiet

So. I am participating in a week long writer’s challenge for Hope*Writers just for fun. So I’ll actually be writing here this week! Yay! 

Today’s prompt: Quiet. 

We recently moved to Northern Uganda. It’s anything but quiet in our world here. So many changes. New faces, a new house, driving on the left side of the road, ants in my clean kitchen (ok - I will take ants over rats any day). The list of new can go on for awhile. 

It’s all so exciting. But I know that one day the new will wear off and the quiet days will come. 

You know these quiet days, the days nobody writes home about. 

For me it will probably be days of sweeping the house (again), rolling my eyes as my girls quarrel over something silly. 

Days of being annoyed at too many boda drivers in town. 

Days of wishing we had a dishwasher or a fast food restaurant in town. 

For you, quiet days might be different than mine. 

But quiet days are where we just live our lives, learning perseverance, faithfulness, and that who we are on the quiet days is just as important the exciting days.  Days that are ordinary, yet still full of opportunity. 

Days of watching sunsets while the girls play volleyball in the front yard. 

Days of listening the sounds of laughter and music from the students in our compound.

Days of chatting with a friend at the local coffee shop. 

All ordinary days with opportunities to know God. Knowing Him in the quiet days is reminding yourself that Jesus knows your name. He sings over you with LOUD singing and quiets your soul. This quieting of your soul is the confidence and peace that (even in the mundane) you belong to God. He sees you, hears you, and you are exactly where He wants you.

A quiet soul brings you joy and gives you strength to keep on walking forward knowing God in all of our exciting, ordinary, busy, or quiet days. 

Zephaniah 3:17 

Micah 6:8

1 Timothy 2:1-4

Ecclesiastes 5:18-20