When the World Turns
This morning I woke up with a terrible case of vertigo. After having a rough weekend battling pain from my fibromyalgia, I was hoping to start the week feeling better and ready to tackle my growing to-do list. But, alas, such was not the case.
Instead, I lay in bed trying to get my world to stop spinning. Every time I shifted my head even slightly, the room whirled around me like I was trapped on some cruel amusement park ride. Tess could sense something was wrong and snuggled up closely as if to reassure me with her steady presence.
"So, I guess it's just going to be one of those days!" I mumbled, closing my eyes against the dizziness.
Have you ever felt that way? Not necessarily dealing with vertigo, but with the sensation that your entire life is spinning out of control? Perhaps it's a sudden financial crisis, relationship troubles, health concerns, or simply too many responsibilities crashing in at once. One moment, everything seems fine, and the next, you can't even lift your head without feeling like you're on a merry-go-round gone mad.
In those disorienting moments, we often grip the sides of our proverbial beds and pray for the spinning to stop. We long for solid ground beneath our feet and a clear vision of what lies ahead. We wonder if we'll ever regain our balance or if we're doomed to navigate life with this nauseating uncertainty forever.
The Psalmist must have experienced something similar when he wrote: "I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long" (Psalm 38:6). There's something profoundly human about feeling overwhelmed by life's circumstances.
Yet even in my dizzy state this morning, I was reminded of a beautiful truth: though my world may spin, God remains perfectly still. He is the fixed point in a whirling universe, the unchanging anchor in the storm.
Isaiah 26:3 promises, "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee." Notice it doesn't say God will immediately stop the spinning. Rather, He offers something better: His peace in the midst of it.
When life throws us into a tailspin, our natural instinct is to close our eyes and wait for it to pass. But perhaps what we really need is to fix our gaze on something—or Someone—who isn't moving. Like a dancer performing a perfect pirouette by spotting a fixed point, we can find stability by focusing on God's unchanging character.
So the next time your world starts spinning (whether literally or figuratively), remember that God's steadiness is greater than your dizziness. His constancy outweighs your chaos. And His peace is available even when everything around you seems to be twirling out of control.
As for me, I'll keep my eyes on Him as I slowly sit up and face whatever this dizzy day may bring.