Whether we hold a tray, carry a bag or simply walk, our posture in the movement is vital.

It’s not about what you’re doing or not doing, but more importantly your posture towards it, your position in it.

If you are walking this way, stand up straight. If you are carrying a burden, how do you carry it?

Do you carry this difficult thing with the right posture, with a good and willing heart?

Do you carry its two straps on your back, tucked around you securely. Do you walk with it straight and uphold it?

Or is it flung across one shoulder? Is it loosely hanging on.

Have you walked into a mess of life?

How are you standing in that place today?

What is your position?

How is your stance?

As I find myself in a fearful state awaiting the departure of my flight ✈️ I realise that I will remain in this seat. 💺

But what is my posture as I sit.

I can pray in fear.

Or I can pray in peace.

✈️ ✈️ ✈️ ✈️

What a flight, filled with turbulence and anxiety, I spent most of it in whispering prayer.

He gave me one image when I cried to him.

A little boys hand holding a toy plane and he zoomed it around.

I got the message.

Child’s play.

It’s child’s play for him to hold the airplane ✈️ I resided in. And while that gave me something to hold onto, I was still filled with anxiety, and desperately fighting for my peace in him.

And this morning. As I ate breakfast 🍳 🥞 out, I tried to pry my bag from the chair only for it to be caught and stuck with each pull. Until I figured that I need to release, needed to slack the handle before it would be free.

Freedom comes when we release into his hands. 🙌

Philippians 4:6-7

⁶ Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. ⁷ And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Father I ask that you will remind each of us just how little we need to worry, and how much we need to give thanks to you.