Last night I sat down to journal and found the words slow to flow. The long, creative sentences that usually fill the page just got stuck in my head and my offering bordered on most lame journal entry ever.
Then I did something I rarely do in a journal entry. I just wrote short sentences...little questions and thoughts I had for the Lord. Each one started a new paragraph, and none of them were followed with any conclusions or answers.
And in no time at all, I had filled a page with questions, fears, thoughts, ideas, and prayers.
It was a good reminder for me that my prayers don't have to be elegant. The sentences don't have to be complex to be meaningful.
They do need to be honest.
The same is true for you. Maybe your brain is jumbled and you wish you had elegant and profound things to pray - or to share with those around you.
But you don't.
Your briefest thoughts still count. Embrace them even in their brevity. Even if all you have are questions and fears to offer up to the Lord, offer them.
Say what you can. Ask what you need. Trust Him from there.
I shared a quote with our tenants this week that said this: "Trust God more than you trust your feelings." (Jennifer Rothschild)
This weekend I trusted Him with my jumbled feelings and short sentences. My feelings remained and were just as untrustworthy as before. But my heart was strengthened in giving God what I had, meager as it may have been.
I encourage you to do the same!
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I love your messages and truths!
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