Keep Calm and...

I've seen more and more of the 'Keep calm and...' merchandise in the shops and people's homes...where will it end?  

But what I hadn't seen was 'Keep calm & trust in God', and to be honest, that's the reminder I need around the house, rather than turning to cupcakes, G&Ts or our monarch, in my day-to-day.

I was about to make one, but thought I'd do an online search first, and sure enough...there are plenty of images of this saying too (and more besides).

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(I believe 'Keep Calm & Carry On' was a phrase started by the British Government in 1939, to try and raise the public's morale.  If they'd somehow managed to get a trademark or copyright on all things 'Keep Calm and...' and had a penny for every time it was used, it might have helped reduce the deficit!)

Follow me to Freedom

So as well as 'Keep Calm & Trust God', this month I've been really impacted by a George Bernard Shaw quote that I read in 'Follow Me To Freedom: Leading & Following as an Ordinary Radical', my latest bed-side read.  In the stage play Back to Methuselah he wrote, 

You see things; and you say, 'Why?'  But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'

I've really noticed how we just get stuck in the normal way of doing things, and rarely take the time to stop and dream another way of doing things.  As I start back at work at the end of this month, and try to juggle all that that entails, I hope to hold onto these two sentences, and trust God whilst daring to imagine new ways of doing things....all one step at a time.