Another year is about to come to a close while the next stretches out before us. How we feel about this past year may bring a sense of accomplishment, but I tend to think more often than not we are conditioned by our media to see things in a much more negative way. We are a nation plagued 24/7 with a constant barrage of catch phrases, cleverly and masterfully crafted to induce emotional trauma to our already overly traumatized and troubled psyche.
A great consolation to the heart, are the words from the old testament book of Isaiah, which says, "You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You because he trust in You." In the Hebrew, the principal meaning of the word stayed is not a description of ones own effort to stay peaceful by the keeping of our own minds focused on God, although that is also to be a vital discipline within our thinking, but here, it means, God is the one who keeps us. The word stayed is better described as supported. As we, by His prevailing grace, entrust ourselves to Him, we shall find that we are sustained and kept in His perfect peace.
Rather than letting fear pervade our thinking, consider how the planets are all kept in their precise orbits, they do not keep themselves, but God keeps them. "Look at the birds of the air, they do not  sow, reap or gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them, are you not much more valuable than they. " And so, He who neither sleeps nor slumbers keeps us too!