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“Are you there God? It’s me Margaret.” keeps coming to mind...Some of you may not be able to relate to this book or even know what it’s about, but we can all relate to feeling as if we aren’t heard or that no one understands our life. Just wanting someone to hear us is often what we feel is needed to continue on with our busy, crazy, scatterbrained life. We don’t necessarily want to change it, we just want to feel that our efforts are noticed and our voices are heard.
To the man who carries all the burdens of the family, not just the ones under your roof, Thank YOU! I imagine that is a daily struggle that you lug with you wrapped around your ankles as you try to keep your head above water and keep swimming each day.
The Mom juggling home, kids, husband; I’ve been there, I understand. There isn’t anyone who appreciates you enough to make it all seem doable on those days where you just want to hide in the closet for two seconds of still and quiet. Just two…
Hey, dad that can’t seem to find enough time to teach the children all the lessons you want them to learn before they ignore you completely; keep trying, they hear you. “Hear me now, listen later” is such a truthful statement!
Wife dealing with hubby's mid-life crisis...God love you. When your eyes tire of rolling in the back of your head, just close them.
Aging friend, embrace it. Savor the freedom!
Widow, caretaker, divorcee, single parent, teenage parents, addict, so many faces in so many different stages of life; good, bad and ugly. Whatever hat you’re donning that isn’t fitting like it should, you are not alone. Keep readjusting. That perfect fitting buckaroo straw will come along and you’ll enjoy the heck out of wearing it!
There may not be anyone you know that is going through exactly what you are, and there’s seemingly no way anyone can understand your exact feelings, but that’s okay. You may have someone you can talk to, but do they really give you comfort that lasts?
Are you “the someone” that people come to for relief, answers, outbursts? Who do you turn to?
As much as I want to wallow in the deep waters of my self proclaimed misery, He knows I’ll tire and eventually I’ll come around to Him.
And I do.
Physically and emotionally spent, I relent to Him.
After filling me with His love, patience and understanding, He takes me back to the sanity that comes with His peace. That true and complete peace that only He can give. No friend, no therapist, no family member, no treatment, no chemical...only Him.
No one knows my life.
But God.
He knows because He’s here with me. He’s the one that I have beside me constantly. My God created all, has done it all. There isn’t anyone like Him and no one loves me like He does. He knows. He hears. He understands. He redeems, heals, helps.
I didn’t automatically learn to lean on Him. I didn’t just start hearing His voice automatically. I had to release myself to Him.
Failed friendships, un-nurtured relationships that fell away, who is constant?
Neighbors move, families grow, people pass on, who’s always there?
Darkness, illness, fed-up...He knows.
Your issues are not insignificant. You are not less than anyone else. You are worthy of His love. His peace.
Fill in the blank, “Are you there God? It’s me ________.”
Don’t wait for Him to say, “Are you there _____? It’s Me God.”
Call on Him. He is there.
1 Peter 5: 6-11 “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: (9) Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. (10) But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. (11) To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
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