When Everything Is In The Air
Learning to Trust God in the Holy Disruptions
When Everything Gets Shaken
Christmas snow globes show up everywhere this time of year.
Each one is peaceful… until someone picks it up and shakes it.
And I realized —
that’s exactly what life feels like sometimes.
We’re moving along, steady and settled,
when suddenly everything gets turned upside down:
a loss we didn’t see coming,
a betrayal we didn’t expect,
a move we didn’t choose,
a relationship we didn’t know would shift,
a season that disrupts more than it comforts.
Life gets shaken.
Not by our choosing.
Not by our timing.
Not by our control.
A Holy Disruption.
When Everything Is in the Air
The moment a snow globe is shaken,
all the pieces rise into the atmosphere at once —
swirling, spinning, unpredictable,
with no way to know how long they’ll float
or where they’ll fall.
Grief feels like that.
Transition feels like that.
Change feels like that.
We tell God,
“Just show me where it will land.”
But He whispers,
“Just stay close while it’s swirling.”
Because while the snow is in the air,
He is in the middle of it.
Psalm 46:10 becomes our anchor:
“Be still, and know that I am God.”
Not “Be still, and know the outcome.”
But know Him.
The outcome is His job.
The knowing is ours.
It Will Never Look the Same Again
Shake any snow globe twice —
you will never get the same pattern.
And the same is true for life.
Even when God restores,
even when God heals,
even when God brings beauty from ashes,
the drift will be different.
The scene will be new.
You won’t get your old life back —
you’ll get a redeemed one.
A wiser one.
A deeper one.
A truer one.
That’s not loss.
That’s formation.
How We Wait Matters
Here’s the challenge:
when everything is in the air,
we have two choices:
wait with anxiety
or
wait with trust.
One exhausts the soul.
The other anchors it.
Waiting with trust says:
“I don’t know where the pieces will land…
but I know Who holds the globe.”
Isaiah 26:3 promises,
“You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are stayed on You, because they trust in You.”
Peace doesn’t come from predictability.
It comes from Presence.
It Will Settle Again
This is the hope God gives every trembling heart:
It will settle again.
Not by chance.
Not by accident.
But by His steady hands.
The swirl will stop.
The fog will clear.
The pieces will land.
And when they do,
you’ll see that God was shaping something new,
something beautiful,
something you didn’t yet know to ask for.
Holy Disruptions are not punishments —
they are invitations
into deeper trust,
greater clarity,
and truer belonging.
Reflection
Where has life shaken you recently?
What pieces are still floating in the air?
What would it look like to wait with trust instead of anxiety while God works?
Prayer