God Of Multiplication: When Your Exhaustion Is More Than Enough
Exhausted. Tired. Sleepy.
How I felt when I get home from work. So tired that sometimes I strip myself of my work clothes, eat dinner, and get straight into bed.
Tonight after work, I got ready to shower. I stood in the bathroom. And then immediately put my robe on, ate dinner, and tried to write. But instead, got lost in my tired thoughts. I said it aloud
Baby I was tyyyard, and you know what it taught me? That some things really are outside of my control. What I desired to do I couldn’t. What I desired to accomplish I couldn’t. And you know what that taught me? What I believe? That this exhaustion is from God. Teaching me to trust more in her (God, that is!) and less in me.
And then, I slept for 30 or 40 minutes. Not in my bed or on laying across my sofa, but sitting straight up in my sofa chair.
This is trust in action, the saying– “let go and let God!”
God, I trust you that what I do is enough. I trust that whatever work I do you meet me there.
It’s a lesson in trusting that the little I do is enough. That the work I’ve already done is enough. In a recent two way prayer, God told me to relax. And just yesterday my spiritual director reiterated my need to surrender my control to God.
The Jovalized* serenity prayer says is:
(*Jovalized = Joval, the writer of these words, turning something into my very own thing)
“God, grant me the serenity.” Grant it to me, oh God! I am asking You boldly and courageously. God, grant me the serenity to accept the things that I cannot change. God, grant me the courage to change the things I can, and God, please, above all, give me the wisdom to know the difference between what I can change and what I cannot.
Courageous Faith blog post
The nap came after the revelation. Forced to sleep. Forced to accept what I could not control.
So at 9:30 pm after an unplanned and unexpected– and dare I even say unwanted (?!) siesta because I had a laundry list of work I wanted to do tonight!– and this brief blog post, I’m going to sleep sleep.
But not before I pray!
My Tired and Anointed Prayer: Why Your Little Still Matters
God, thank You that our work paired with our faith in You is more than enough. Thank You God that Your abundance means our little bit is enough. Thank You God that You meet us, making our drop of work an ocean of outcome because I know you are a God of multiplication and not addition. Thank You God that You make everything beauitiful in due time. Not in our chronos time, but in Your kairos time. And so it is, with an expectant heart that I rest in You. Amen.
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