When I start humming it is for many reasons. I hum when I’m happy, sad, mad, whenever. Humming a happy tune calms me and puts me in a better, or even better, mood.
My family knows that when I start humming the song “Oh How I love Jesus” that momma needs to take ten. Last week my daughter informed me (and it hasn’t been the first time) that my humming annoys her and one of her grandparents. I replied, “Sorry…but you’re just going to have to be annoyed!” Then I asked her if she would rather me yell at her in irritation and say something I might regret, or calm down first and choose my words.
Humming that song when I’m “not-so-pleased” not only calms me, but keeps my focus on God.
“Music makes the world go round” right? Well…no, God does. But it sure helps keep me in “tune” with my Creator.
For the past couple of weeks I feel like I’ve done quite a bit of humming or quiet reflection. Humming because:
- I am grateful that I have my kids to be mad at.
- I have a job that I enjoy going to.
- I am so blessed to have a man that loves God and strives to be more like Jesus each day.
- I love my children!
- The busyness of the season can get to me.
- I adore the time I’ve had with my brothers and their family this weekend.
- The madness of the traffic during each holiday season.
- I desire for others, and myself, to want to know Christ more intimately and grow closer to Him.
- It’s the time we celebrate Jesus’ birth!
- And on and on.
This morning when I read Psalm 146 I was reminded why I sing (or hum) and Who is in charge. It says in verses 1-2, 8, and 10:
“Praise the Lord! Let all that I am praise the Lord. I will praise the Lord as long as I live. I will sing praises to my God with my dying breath.”
“The Lord lifts up those who are weighed down.”
“God’s in charge—always.”
All my praise goes to God!
I have been a little “weighed down” the past couple of weeks (you might have been able to tell by the non-consistency of my journaling), but I am always reminded that God’s got this!
“Oh how I love Jesus”….Oh Yes I Do! In the good times and the bad.
What do you do to help keep you calm? That just reminded me of how, since the Olympics in London, we’ve seen so many “Keep calm…” saying lately. Well, mine should read, “Keep calm and hum on.”
Blessings to you.
Here is Psalm 146 in its entirety
Psalm 146
1 Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord, my soul.
2 I will praise the Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
3 Do not put your trust in princes,
in human beings, who cannot save.
4 When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;
on that very day their plans come to nothing.
5 Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the Lord their God.
6 He is the Maker of heaven and earth,
the sea, and everything in them—
he remains faithful forever.
7 He upholds the cause of the oppressed
and gives food to the hungry.
The Lord sets prisoners free,
8 the Lord gives sight to the blind,
the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down,
the Lord loves the righteous.
9 The Lord watches over the foreigner
and sustains the fatherless and the widow,
but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
10 The Lord reigns forever,
your God, O Zion, for all generations.
Praise the Lord.
December 24
