Hands that hold the world

We can't even come close to realizing what it is like to hold the whole world in our hands. We can't even imagine what it is like to hold 100 people in our hands. Our human mind won't and doesn't allow us to comprehend something so magnificent as such. But we find ourselves saying sometimes that the hands that does hold the world doesn't have time for our measly problems. Our small minds tend to lead us to believe that those hands only has time for the important stuff.

But what is and isn't important to someone is based on the person. What I might think is important and want those hands to hold and fix well you may think is a silly or even stupid request. It all solely depends on the person.

God never wants us to feel like our problems aren't big enough or important enough. Because in God's eyes we are all equally His and equally important to Him.

We all pray for the sick and those who we see that need help. Most of the people on your church prayer list are either sick or they are facing what we ALL consider a hardship. But have you ever seen someone on your prayer list and wondered why they were on there? I have. That name was my name. I was the person and I thought to myself , " Huh? Really? Why? I ain't sick and I ain't in a hardship." But someone did see the small things that I felt was important but not important to leave it with God.

We all have small important, not so important things that we tend to say a quick prayer of , " God, I know your busy but really quick let me say this...." Things that may not matter to another soul on the Earth are said and said quickly. But then we find ourselves saying that short quick prayer everyday or every night and no answer. God gives us 3 answers ( learned this years ago from a former pastor and have heard it repeatedly), He gives YES, NO, and WAIT.  But let me ask this, can God answer if we don't leave the burden there with him?

We make life harder than it has to be most of the time. Especially our prayer life. We tend to pray about a certain situation or person or whatever it may be but we don't leave it in God's hands for Him to take care of it. We leave it there while we pray but when we finish talking with God we pack it back up and keep a hold of it. We really do put more stress on ourselves than we should. God wants to help but He can't if we won't let go and won't let Him take control. I have heard people say, " Oh but I left it in God's hands." Well if you did then you wouldn't be so worried and you wouldn't be walking around with that on your mind and in your heart. Leaving a prayer with God is like leaving your sins and burdens at the altar. You have heard pastors say, " Leave your burdens here at the altar, let God take those burdens from you." We have all heard a pastor or two say that. But God can't take a burden if we won't let go. Just like He can't answer a prayer that we won't release to Him.

I learned a lot about praying from my Daddy. I have watched my daddy grow into the Godly man he is today. We all have a testimony but to hear my daddy talk about praying and the way he would pray just got to me. I remember I use to question how my daddy never worried over anything. He would always say and still has to remind me today that, " When you pray to God about it you got to leave it with Him." Daddy would always say to me that God is gonna take care of it you just got to let Him. I have learned to pray like my daddy. A prayer that is always left with God is one less worry on my heart.

We will never fully comprehend the hands that hold the world. But those hands can hold every prayer from everyone. A family's prayer for a life to be saved, a child's prayer for the lost dog to come home, your prayer for a healthy newborn, anothers prayer for the right soul mate, anothers for the sun to shine and even one's prayer for their favorite football team to win. You know it's amazing when you see a prayer answered. For an example, Lee's little sister Emily prayed for months that their dog Toby would come home. He had went missing and I guess most of us thought he was gone for good. But that honest sincere prayer she prayed every night for literally months was answered. I still remember Lee telling me that Toby was back. It was the craziest thing. But I remember Kim telling us that Emily prayed every night for Toby to come home. Oh what we can learn from a child.

The hands that hold the world can hold any prayer if we just let them. Letting go isn't easy but when we do prayers are answered. 

Family

Family. That word has weighed on my mind for days now. I found myself one night last week praying for God to help me with this word. So I don't really know where this blog is headed tonight.

My family means the world to me. If it wasn't for my family then I would not have made it through somethings as good as I did. If you ever want to know what unconditional love is turn around and look at your family. My family has loved me at my best and at my worst. That unconditional love held on to me when I didn't want to be held on too. That unconditional love looked me in the eyes and said "You are gonna be okay! WE are not going anywhere."

At some point in each of our lives we have taken our family for granted. As teenagers, we think that we know more than they do and that our family is out to just ground us for everything under the sun. We rebelled, we argued, and we ran from that unconditional love. We let someone else tell us that family wasn't important. That all we needed was our friends and so called friends. But when the truth came out and we thought we would be standing alone who was standing with us? Family.

God gave us a certain family because He knew that is who we needed to be with. He knew that that family would love and support us no matter what. Help us in time of need and cheer us on in our biggest race.

I use to think God blessed me with extremely strict parents. But you know hind sight is 20/20. I am thankful for those extremely strict parents. I thought I was a good child but when I look back, good Lord knows I was a handful.

I have my own little family now, that I am working putting the pieces back together. I have realized through this that family can beat all odds when they stick together.

Family. I will have another blog on this soon I hope. I feel like there is a little more to say.