When was the last time you were pushed to your limit?
When you didn’t know if you could keep going and how you would continue to put one foot in front of the other?
When was the last time you were frightened and tempted to despair?
As a friend reminded me today, our natural tendency is to become fearful when traumatic events happen or when we are challenged beyond what we know we can handle. But our choice, in those times, is between faith and hope and despair and fear.
The problem is that sometimes we are so stunned or so pained that all we can do is cry out to God in our hearts.
And what I have come to know is that He hears me, even when I can’t find the words to speak.
I just have to choose Him, again and again and again and to invite Him to help me. To navigate through difficulties, even heartbreak, with His aid.
I am learning to let go of thinking that I need to push through challenges on my own, to be tougher or less needy. Sometimes, I don’t have the strength on my own to choose hope and faith, I have to ask for that too!
With Him, I am able. I can go through the fires of life, with acceptance and stretches of peace, and trust that all of my experiences will be turned to my soul’s good. And I have faith that the things that I truly desire most will be what He helps me to achieve.
And for this knowledge I am forever grateful.
God bless you in your everyday needs, whether they are large or small, public or private. I pray that you will find solace in ‘dropping your burdens at His feet, and bearing a song away.’
Love,
“Why should this anxious load, press down your weary mind? Haste to your Heavenly Father’s throne, and sweet refreshment find.”
Philip Doddridge 1702-1751
Again, thank you for the timely entry. I hope you are well!
I am ok, I just thought that sometimes knowing that we aren’t alone in our feelings of struggle and challenge is good medicine. So I felt to share! Love you!