April 30, 2007

Life... a strange journey where it is easy to get wrapped up in the unimportant things, to worry deeply about the every day stuff. It's difficult to pay attention to the things that really matter... until a moment hits-- or a series of moments-- that make you stop in your tracks and re-think things. And yet, when the dust settles (or maybe even before it does) we still keep worrying... about the stuff that in the end won't even matter.

We feel like we need to be "in charge" of life, and yet we continue to feel that we are at its will. We allow life to run us-- in the place of God. We make the decision to give it all back to God and have faith that He will guide us, but in the end, our humanity doesn't allow it. It's a cycle that keeps going... a lesson that for many of us, God continues to work our entire lives long. Will we ever get there?

God promises that prayer does not return void. He indeed knows better what we need that we do ourselves, we know that and yet we remain fearful. If we would silence our thoughts, our fears, our worries for just a few minutes, and wait on the Lord to form our prayers within our hearts, our prayers would be in line with God's perfect plans for us and there would be no room for fear or worrying. God is indeed perfect-- His prayers and His answers are as well... relinquishing our imperfect will to that should not be a scary thing.