JULY Scripture Memory Verse

While our family was on vacation in the Midwest, I decided to take the month of June off from doing "Scripture Sisters".   I never wrote a memory verse out on 3.5 card.  I wasn't  rehearsing  it in the car with Emily.  Or looking at it on my kitchen counter regularly. Or saturating my mind with memorizing it. And something else happened too. The scriptures were not in the forefront of my mind.
Vacations have a way of letting you "leave your worries behind"!  But when our plane landed on the LAX runway from our trip home .....I instantly felt the weight of some of those "at home" burdens.  I was back home in reality.  I came home to  stacks of mail I needed to go through.  In the days that followed, we began to have  things "break".  New bills started to mount and slowly I could feel  the "female panicker" coming out in me.  I was letting the worry, and fret, and dread, fill the "empty spaces of my mind." (Yep, there are actually empty spaces up there.)   I really don't mean to live this way.  It's not like I set out every morning saying...."how about you worry your pretty little head off today on all of these issues"!  I can read The word in the morning,  read a devotional, have a prayer time, or sing an awesome praise song that fills my heart .  Then 20 minutes later when I am doing dishes or whatnot, there I am with my empty brain......filling it with "non-scriptural things"!     It just happens.
But here's what I am learning about myself.  When I am learning verses.....it really helps me focus on The Lord .  It  encourages me to trust in HIM.  I make a concerted effort to play those scriptures over and over in my mind ( then they end up living in my heart and playing out more consistently in my daily life.)    I have been memorizing scripture since January and it has brought a beautiful new way of living to my life.
 I want to be trusting in The Lord.  There are so many promises in HIS word I want to know....and memorize.  There are so many beautiful scriptures I'd rather replace in my mind and heart.....than the life sucking (don't ya just hate that word!) , worry and fret I am so prone to do.   It was a good eye opener for me.  "Barby better get back to memorizing scripture!"
 So , I have the sweetest verse I am going to memorize for July.  I actually heard it just about every Sunday when I was young.  Our Pastor quoted The King James verse regularly.  

Isaiah 26:3  King James Version
"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee."


Whether I am the only one on this blog, or there are several of you who join me,  I will be here every month committed to memorizing ..."life giving" scripture.  Oh Lord let us be women whose minds are "stayed on thee"!   I know you will be blessed this month as you keep your memory verse in your mind and heart.   ( I'll leave the first comment.  Remember to follow the same format .  And I'd love to hear why the verse is special to you!)   Love you!