I often visit Psalm 131:2. It says, “Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned chid with his mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.” I have learned a lot about our sympathetic and our parasympathetic nervous systems. We are so fearfully and wonderfully made.

Do you know how to take yourself from fight, flight, or freeze into rest and digest when there is no present danger? Do you know how to bring calm to your whole body in a few minutes? Isaiah 26:3 says, “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.”

Our chaotic thoughts can produce a fight, flight, or freeze response even when there is no present danger. Have you ever gone to bed and your mind keeps circling the wagons? David wrote Psalm 131. He also wrote Psalm 4 when his son Absalom usurped his throne and he was running for his life.