Many species of birds display what is called site fidelity. That is the tendency to return to the same locations year after year. Swallows return to the Mission San Juan Capistrano every year, traveling about 6000 miles from Argentina. They arrive on March 19. I remember that date since it is also Bob’s birthday.
I awoke this morning thanking my LORD for His cross. I finished my prayer with, “LORD, may my thoughts always return to thankfulness.”
I had no idea where that thought (“may my thoughts always return to thankfulness”) came from initially but as I meditated on it throughout the morning, I realized it was the Holy Spirit leading.
My mind is seldom quiet. My thoughts are pulled in many different directions. I see something or hear something or read something and off I go. Often it goes in good directions, and I relate what I see to the Ways of the LORD. But it can also head in not-so-good directions, and I can find it pulling toward worry or anxiety or fear.
The Holy Spirit led me to pray and to meditate on “thoughts that return” to a specific place, a place of thankfulness for all God is. Like the birds that have “site fidelity,” thankfulness is to be the location I always come back to!
Amen & Amen