Can’t There Be a Button?

Our toaster oven is a tricky thing.

When it beeps, I can’t just pull out my bagel (I like it midway between barely and burnt) and close the door again. I have to push the button before it will stop beeping.

I wish it were always that easy.

Sometimes I wish there was a button to push when I got tired or frustrated or worried or overwhelmed or run-down or so-done-with-this-thing-called-living-knowing-God-loves-me.

Can’t I just push a button every time I want to stop the beeping and blaring of life? When I want to catch my breath because the day is whirling by so fast and I’m sure I’m missing the opportunity to be a blessing? When I want to pause and ponder whether or not I really feel ready to say goodbye to this chapter of me…and move on to a new one in the story He’s writing?

Can’t I have a button for just one day?

And yet…

Perhaps I’m grateful there isn’t some kind of cosmic button I can push to stop the beeping and blaring. Because it is in those loud times, when everything falls apart… that I can often best hear the invitations that come straight from the Throne of Grace. Jesus is the “button” I’ve been wishing for.

So I come and the noise falls away. The quiet sweeps over me. In the beeping and blaring, a moment sitting at His feet listening to Him telling me He loves me… what better “button” could I ask for than that?.

Have you ever wished there was a button you could push?

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