Lately, I’ve had several occasions to watch the sun start to come up on my way into work. It’s my favorite time of day – when dark gives way to new opportunities. Just like so many times in life. That one ray of sunshine starts to breakthrough with fresh possibilities. It’s in the stillness before the day quickly runs off with new To-Do Lists that hopefully become Done Lists. It’s the time I am most settled and in tune. It’s when I am most likely to be reminded of why I am where I am. Whose I am.

Last night, JD asked me how I was doing. He’s my son, so he isn’t looking for the same answer that you would just give anyone – he’s asking because he wants to know how his mama is really doing. I answered with the first thing that came to mind – Son, I am right where the Lord wants me and there is peace in that.

Peace when life is busy. Peace when all the balls are in the air. Peace when things change with a quickness. Peace when I crawl in bed at night with a word of thankfulness for another day. Peace.

Knowing that you are where you are supposed to be doesn’t mean that weariness won’t creep in. Goodness, there wouldn’t be a whole scripture in the Bible that starts with – Let us not grow weary in well doing – if there wasn’t a time you would feel weary. It doesn’t mean you know exactly where the next step is. It doesn’t even mean that you always do everything just right. Or that you won’t have frustrations and questions.

But it does mean peace.

I drove in today, watching the sun try to wake up, singing along with the song I woke up with in my heart, so very thankful for peace.

Thank you, Lord, for this season. Where you so greatly remind me that I am exactly where I am supposed to be. It’s the whisper in the morning that resonates with me all day.

There’s a joy in my soul

And it rises like the morning

This I know for sure

That Your grace is enough

And Your promise never breaking

I give my song to You