The following is by Kristyn Getty, posted on the Getty Music Facebook Page on Monday, December 28, 2015

‘Thou my best thought by day or by night
Waking or sleeping Thy presence, my light’
(from the hymn Be Thou My Vision).

A few weeks ago in church we sang one of my favorites, the old Irish hymn ‘Be Thou my Vision’. I’ve known this text all my life but a line jumped out at me as if I’d never heard it before – Thou my best thought, by day or by night.

My brain has been so cluttered of late, very busy and extremely sleep deprived but this lyric cut through the noise pulsing through my head. It is hard especially with young children to reign your thoughts into their rightful order. Everything becomes meshed together and it’s easy to let smaller things become the main things.

“Should I buy organic or regular ‘toxic’ bananas or is it enough to just get the milk that’s organic?!! And how do I get Charlotte to stop eating her toothpaste especially if all she had for dinner was ketchup and the breading round the chicken?! Is Grace eating enough, sleeping enough, warm enough, enough, enough, enough…? These kids are growing up too fast, don’t grow up too fast…How will I get Eliza to listen first time? How are Keith and I going to settle on the right schedule?”

The day can be quickly filled with all of these intense thoughts, the worries, the fears, the laughs, the tears…sandwiched between the scary news headlines that pop up on Facebook and the ‘we need to do better at getting to church on time’ talk and then here we are on another heaven sent Sunday standing with little Gracie in my arms and I hear:

‘Thou my best thought by day or by night’

A window opens in my soul and

fresh air blows in;
everything becomes rightly reshuffled,
relief follows,
the bullies of worry and fear are quietened

and joy unleashes my heart to sing to the great unchangeable all wise God who loves us, and is in control of all things and has blessed us abundantly in Christ.

As we consider a new year, all our goals and all our plans, it is good to remember that He is our best thought and makes sense and order of all others.

Learn more about Keith and Kristyn Getty at www.gettymusic.com.