Today is my last day before training camp and I feel very unprepared! I don’t feel ready at all, however, my mom told me as I was stressing out this morning that, “If you felt like you had it all together, there would be no room for God to work.” She gave me the best advice that morning. Sometimes you feel like you have to have everything under control but God doesn’t want you to. He’s there for you and I to lean on.
As im learning now, that’s a very hard lesson. I keep thinking of things that could be useful! In all honesty though, the thing that’s most useful for me is prayer. I realize that I’ve been walking through this fast pace summer and hardly praying. I’ve filled my time with a youth trip with my favorite people, a camping trip with my family, and running my first 5k. All of these things are good, but I took a step back from all the chaos today and decided to pray. Not just a, “Hey God, thanks for this day! Help me with this stress I’m under. Amen.” No. I took time to really pray. Once I did, I felt this weight off my shoulders. It was easier to deal with the stress that I felt and still feel about this trip! Don’t get me wrong. I’m ecstatic to be doing God’s work, but I’m still going to places I’ve never been! But I’m taking this time to trust in the Lord. Besides, who better to trust than the Lord of all creation!
