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Welcome to Day 1409 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomOur World Is Shaken \u2013 Meditation MondayWisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge.\xa0Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy.\xa0Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. This is Day 1409 of our Trek, and it is time for Meditation Monday.\xa0Taking time to relax, refocus, and reprioritize our lives is crucial in order to create a living legacy.\xa0For you, it may just be time alone for quiet reflection.\xa0You may utilize structured meditation practices. In my life, Meditation includes reading and reflecting on God\u2019s Word and in prayer.\xa0It is a time to renew my mind, refocus on what is most important, and making sure that I am nurturing my soul, mind, and body.\xa0As you come along with me on our trek each Meditation Monday, it is my hope and prayer that you, too, will experience a time for reflection and renewing of your mind.\xa0


I am on my 64th revolution around the sun on this oasis of paradise that we call earth. On this earth, from the beginning of creation, there have been problems.\xa0I must admit though the first six months of 2020 has been what we would call a humdinger, and not in a good way.\xa0\xa0\xa0I think we are all a bit shaken at the moment. Today let us meditate on:


Our World is ShakenThere have been many twists and turns in my life. There have been many unexpected ups and downs.\xa0I am sure you have experienced the same. We would like to make sense of it all, because we desire to be in control, which we are not.\xa0We desire to have meaning in what has and is happening, but that is not always the case. The older I get, the more I can relate to wise King Solomon in his old age.\xa0He wrote in Ecclesiastes 1:2 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1&version=NLT) , \u201cEverything is meaningless,\u201d says the Teacher, \u201ccompletely meaningless!\u201d


We have heard thousands of times in the past few months that we are living in unprecedented times.\xa0We want to think that there has never been a time like we are currently facing.\xa0There is an ongoing worldwide pandemic that has claimed over 500,000 lives, and maybe many more.\xa0Now we have global unrest about injustices and prejudices, which are resulting in peaceful protest, and very unpeaceful rioting causing additional loss of life and destruction of property.\xa0We want to think that nothing like this has ever happened, that this is all new.\xa0Once again, wise King Solomon buts it this way in Ecclesiastes 1:9-11 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1%3A9-11&version=NLT) History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new.\xa0Sometimes people say, \u201cHere is something new!\u201d But actually, it is old; nothing is ever truly new.\xa0We don\u2019t remember what happened in the past, and in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now.


In addition to global devastation, many individuals are also experiencing life-altering situations, many of which are personally devastating.\xa0These situations shake us to our very core.\xa0We feel like we are reeling out of control. We need a place to pause and regain our center.


So did the Christians at the end of the first century. Rome was trying to wipe out Christ-followers from the face of the earth.\xa0Their worlds were shaken to the core.\xa0The old apostle John writes to help them regain their center. Every day their world was spun wildly out of control by the ever-present threat of persecution. Their numbers were small as they gathered for...