"Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion which cannot be shaken but endures forever.As the mountains surround Jerusalem so the Lord surrounds his people both now and forevermore."-Psalm 125:1-2.
I entitled my blog In the Midst:A Life in Surrender for a couple reasons. In California, there is a Pastor who has a daughter who is in her third battle with brain cancer and this past summer he had a sermon series about life and each of his sermons were about going trials and struggles, hard times and how to and why need to look to the Lord for strength and guidance. Trusting the Lord when your world has gone from bad to worse. So I got a some encouragement in that department, but I chose the title because no matter who you are, no matter what you do, and no matter where you are, we always in the middle, in the midst of something. That is a characteristic that we all share, even though we don't think so. The heroin addict in California and the school teacher in Vermont have this commonality, that is that they both are "In The Midst", ahhh see what I did there...just kidding but seriously, they are both in the middle of something. Those stages of what were are dealing with are different for every person because we are different people, what the heroin addict is dealing with is probably not the same as the school teacher, but that doesn't mean they in different worlds.

We are all in different stages in life, have different interests, and different personalities, but we have a few things in common: We are all on a journey and that journey has twists and turns we never saw coming. We are all in the midst of something whether that is a time of peace and joy or a time of pain and sorrow. So remember, this life is a journey, with many different paths, but keep in mind that everyone else is on their own journey as well, in the midst of one of life's paths. -Casey