This is my current journal. Before I purchased it, I’d begun noticing this slogan, or motto, cropping up more and more frequently in my environment. I have an idea or two why this seems to be having a resurgence in popularity in our culture, but I won’t get into that now.
For those of you unfamiliar, this is not related to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Don’t panic!!). Before the graphic became the cover for a journal it was a poster – rather a whole bunch of posters – produced by the British government at the onset of World War II to help maintain the morale of the British citizens. “Though war and chaos is breaking out around and in our country, keep calm and carry on.”
Yesterday morning I was at Caribou before church doing a bit of journaling and such. When I finished, I closed it up and placed it on my Bible and just sat there for a bit, letting the excess thoughts drain from my mind. Then I glanced down and for a moment it looked as though my journal and Bible were one and the same and I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be rather fitting if this were on the cover of our Bibles? I mean, isn’t that the point? When strife and chaos breaks out in and around our lives should we freak out? No. God is in control. He loves us, we have a place reserved in heaven – just keep calm and carry on.
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