There are moments when life leaves us without a clear answer.
A diagnosis arrives. A relationship changes. A career decision becomes complicated. A plan that seemed certain suddenly falls apart. We may gather advice, weigh our options and replay every possibility in our minds, yet still find ourselves asking the same question: What am I supposed to do now?
In Life Song Devotional: 365 Days, author Gary Francis Rawlinson returns again and again to a simple response: start with God.
That lesson is especially clear in one of his reflections, “What to Do,” where Rawlinson recalls an experience from his aviation career. While working as a flight mechanic, he was aboard an aircraft at Newark International Airport during a snowy winter morning. As the plane was being de-iced, thick smoke suddenly filled the cabin.
Passengers panicked. The flight crew was trying to determine what had happened.
Rawlinson’s training allowed him to recognize the problem quickly. De-icing fluid had entered the engines and affected the aircraft’s cabin air. He knew which system to shut down and what steps to take.
The crisis passed.
For Rawlinson, the experience became more than an aviation story. It illustrated an important spiritual truth: knowing what to do often depends on what we have learned before the emergency begins.
A pilot studies before the storm. A mechanic learns the aircraft before something goes wrong. In the same way, Rawlinson encourages readers to become familiar with Scripture before life places them in situations where they desperately need direction.
That does not mean the Bible provides a simple instruction for every decision. Nor does faith remove uncertainty. Instead, knowing Scripture helps shape the way we respond with trust, patience, prayer, wisdom and a deeper understanding of God’s character.
Rawlinson experienced this personally beyond the cockpit.
Years later, he received a cancer diagnosis. This was not a mechanical problem he could troubleshoot with professional training. Fear came quickly and there was no switch he could flip to make the situation disappear.
But he knew where to turn.
His faith became the place from which he approached the uncertainty. He prayed, trusted God and leaned on the spiritual foundation he had developed through Scripture. That experience became one of many personal stories woven throughout Life Song Devotional: 365 Days.
The book is filled with questions people face in ordinary life: What happens when we are broken? Where does worry get us? What should we do when prayers seem unanswered? What is our purpose? How do we respond to disappointment? How can we trust when the future is unclear?
Across 365 daily reflections, Rawlinson brings those questions together with Scripture, personal experience and prayer.
The goal is not to make readers feel as though they should already know every answer.
It is to help them develop a habit of knowing where to begin.
When the unexpected happens, preparation matters. When fear arrives, perspective matters. And when you cannot see the next step, the practices you have developed reading Scripture, praying honestly and seeking God’s guidance can help steady you.
Life Song Devotional: 365 Days offers readers a year of opportunities to build those habits.
Because when you do not know what to do, you do not always need to know the entire path.
Sometimes you simply need to know where to start.
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