This week has been one of those weeks where it just starts off rough and seems like nothing goes right. Literally everything I have tried seems to have gotten messed up somehow. Even right down to the cake pops I tried to make tonight. I was trying to be creative and make St. Patrick Day Cake pops for the kids. They looked so cute on Pinterest and the directions seemed so easy. Wrong. It may seem silly, but I literally wanted to just stand in the kitchen and cry as this big mess of cake, icing, and melted candy fell off of the Popsicle sticks. I wanted to cry not because I burned all of my fingers and not because cake pops are an impossible, ridiculous idea but because it is so frustrating to not have things go the way you want them to. Then add to that the frustration of feeling so close to some serious issues in kids' lives at work and feeling so helpless! I want to do more and need to do more, but I don't know how or where or what.
It’s been the kind of week that you just want to skip. Then I got the feeling of utter helplessness and frustration. And then, as usual, God wrecked my “life revolves around me” thinking. And He reminded me of just how big He is. In Joshua is this story about how God sets out to show the Israelites that He is with Joshua and kind of like He did with the Red Sea, He completely stops up a river. I mean the Jordan River piles up in a heap behind the priests. And the land they stand on isn’t muddy or sloshy, it’s dry ground. And the entire nation of Israel crosses over. We’re talking thousands upon thousands of people. And God does this in His spare time. That God, Yahweh leading His people through the desert, is the same God that I love and talk to everyday. He’s the same God that hears me whining about all my insignificant problems and the same God that deals with me patiently. He is the God that is bigger than any mess I can make. He is bigger than any problem I run into. He is bigger. He is enough. So I can be strong and I can be courageous because the God that stops up rivers for fun, I’m on His team. No matter how I feel like things get messed up, no situation is ever bigger than my God. Nothing surprises Him, in fact He plans it all out. I can rest easy because my God is bigger. Bigger than anything anyone will ever face anywhere. He’s got this. Any my life would be a lot less chaotic and a lot less emotional if I could just trust that He is bigger and He is in control.
On a less serious note, do not be fooled by the pictures on Pinterest of cake pops. Just go buy them from a bakery. It is not easy. They are not cute. And it is not a fun experience.
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