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Hide in the Shelter of His Wings

There are times when one can feel completely overwhelmed by life's circumstances. Those are the times when you need a safe place to destress and unload all of the garbage that has attached itself to your person. By garbage, I am thinking of the negative emotions of others that can "slime" us; the negative encounters we experience with unhappy people who just cannot be satisfied; the negative fights with out of control people; the things that just happen out of our control like car accidents, extreme weather situations and pregnancy (hahaha! yes, sometimes pregnancy happens even when you try to prevent it!). But, when you feel overwhelmed and you don't know where to turn, there is a place where you can hide. A place where you can find solace. In Psalm 91, King David writes of the Shelter of Father God's wings... the shelter of His presence. As you read Psalm 91, listen to verbs: Psalm 91 1-13 You who sit down in the High God's presence, spend the night i