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Proverbs 3
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Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
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in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Have you awakened to a day or week which seems more than you can navigate? Does your path looked crooked and overgrown with responsibilities? Are you worried you cannot accomplish everything in your daily planner or your calendar? Does your day or week seem overwhelming?

Many of our days seem to be like this and sometimes our whole week is crooked and tangled with responsibilities, worries, and stress. Often I have wanted to stay in the bed and cover up my head, go back to sleep and ignore the sunlight peeping in the window. What do you do when you don't believe you can face the day?

Proverbs 3 gives us the map to follow. We uncover our heads, look to the LORD with all our hearts, and pray for his instructions. Our understanding of our day will be clouded with our insecurities, our worries our leaning on our own feeble abilities. Don't fear, dear sisters and brothers, we don't have to lean on our abilities for we have the God and Father, the author of The Word to show us how to walk these crooked roads of life. He made us and He gave us the days and we know He will show us the way to walk this road and will carry us when we get too tired to move ahead.

We have to admit we are too feeble in our strength to move ahead, read God's Word, and wait on the LORD to show us how and when to move ahead. He will remove the obstacles or help us walk through them for there is nothing He cannot control - He created everything.

He is also a God of time! He was there in the beginning and has been in our past, is in our present, and knows our future so what are we worried about? Acknowledge He is God and acknowledge He is the Creator, the Father and Helper and He will make our paths straight. A path we can walk and maybe even run but we can move ahead and know that He is our guide and fellow traveler.

Take heart, dear friends and uncover your head, get out of bed, look to the Father and walk the road ahead with joy.

Prayer: "Listen for God's voice in everything I do, everywhere I go; You are the one who will keep me on track. Proverbs 3: 6 (The Message)

Amen and amen