Good morning and happy Monday. I had an interesting question asked, of a group I was in, about reflection. Rewording it a bit to fit more than just that group, I will ask you. Looking back, what in your life have you fought with or struggled with that you have put down and now have picked back up?  Why is it that we find peace in God and in living in His will as best we can, and we can't stay there? Do we feel lost without some sort of control over our lives? If so, then we never really died to ourselves and surrendered to God?  This is a slippery slope, but given how we all fail, it's about how to stay in the light of God the best we can. That is done with daily time, and for some of us, hourly time, with God. We have to get in His Word and read and study and begin to apply it. It does still apply and in case we forgot, there's a big part of it still to come. We can't put it off as history and not think it does not go along for us today. I think sometimes that may be why we disregard it. I don't know. Each of us has to find the way that keeps us close to Him. I think about Jesus'  apostles and how they we're with Him and knew Him but never really got what was going on until the Holy Spirit filled them. Then they lived and died for the Name of Jesus Christ. It's no different today. We know Him, and if not really staying in the Word, miss what He's doing until we give in to the Holy Spirit that is given to us by God Himself. Trust Him and live for Him. Stay near Him and His church will grow by Him through you. In love always. <><