I think Tripp sums up half the devotion in these words: “This world can be a tough address.”

The other half is summed up in the words:

I will face loss, trouble, and disappointment, but nothing has the power to separate me from my Redeemer’s unrelenting love.

I, too, like that the Bible is not a cutesy, everything in okay and will be okay book. It does not paint people with sin, with warts and all. It is honest.

But it also gives the cure…Jesus. There is a peace amidst the storm. It is knowing that Jesus is not afraid of the storm. He was the ONE who went to sleep in a boat, woke up, said, “Peace be still” and calmed the storm. He was the one who went to a cross, died, rode again and said, “Death will be put under my feet.” There are more examples but just those two alone tell me He’s got this. Even though the storm swirls around me I can have peace.

“Father, when all is chaos You are the eye of the storm. You are that calm when the storm swirls around me, like a tornado throwing things left and right. Thank you for standing with me.”