A few days ago I was pacing around my well-worn prayer path in the backyard. My thoughts were flowing, but the words weren’t coming. The particular trial on my mind was one I had mulled over for months. I had prayed all the prayers, cried all the tears. There just didn’t seem to be anything left to say. Fresh pain doesn’t always come with fresh, creative prayers.
I reached inside my brain and dug around in the mommy-fog. I found a verse I knew well, harkening back to my days in Sunday School and AWANA. Since my own words were failing me at the moment, I repeated the verse over and over.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your path straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6
I’ve known this passage for 30 years, so the last thing I expected was for something new to jump out at me. But it did. Up until that point, I had always summed up this passage in one word: Trust. It was a call to action on my part. It meant that if I wanted peace, I
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