Some days the problems stack up faster than the dishes do. A bill comes in by surprise, clearly that child is behind in spelling, busy seems to be taking over our schedule and the hints of disrespect between the little people compound.
What a mess.
Like grinding gears I work through the day, but how do I even begin to attack when it feels like everywhere I look there are issues? Not boat sinking issues, not today anyhow, but struggles that demand my attention, things that need to be brought into alignment. Life.
Do you feel that too?
But He said His yoke is easy and His burden is light (Matthew 11:30).
I’ll take one order of easy and light right about now. But how?
Recently I’ve been studying the book of 1 Samuel with my kids and right away we were greeted with the familiar story of Hannah. Hannah who longed to carry a child; who was provoked by her rival. Hannah who wore her grief, her burden, heavy.
Hannah took her bitter and broken heart to the temple and laid it before God. She wept. She prayed. And in 1 Samuel 1:16 she says this,
“…for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief I have spoken until now.” (emphasis mine)
Until now. Those words jumped off the page for me. Words I swept over previously now stopped me in my tracks.
