between sobs and worry.
and if there is one thing i should have learned by now, through all of these struggles, that name... Jesus. its enough. always. enough.
when you fall in love with a boy who doesnt love you or God for that matter. when you find out you will soon bring life into the world, when you feel like a baby yourself. through all of the moves and deployments. years without real connections to anyone. looking in the mirror and realizing you cope by eating. when youre happy. sad. lost. celebratory.
He is enough.
when youre at the end of the month, with no opportunity in sight, wondering after this one small paycheck... then what?
but the birds do not wonder how they will find their next meal.
an entire group of people, wandering through the desert for 40 years. manna.
a giant and a shepherd boy. a slingshot.
three men in an all consuming fire. untouched by the flames.
me. time after time after time.
He is enough.
i will learn this lesson over and over again. in different ways, im sure.
perspective is everything. i call this suffering. but when i compare this to the cross i claim to cling to daily...
well, suffering this is not.
and cling i shall.
Jesus.
Enough.
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
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