Just Lean

Ok Nicole you can do this.

Don’t let it get to you.

Be strong.

What about this gut wrenching feeling, I just want to vomit!

You are beginning to spiral, get a grip.

You’re going to be just like her!

That’s it I can’t take it anymore!!

 { above is my self talk}

I begin to weep……

I pace back and forth do I burden anyone else with this pain, or do I carry it myself?

I decide to reach out and people reach back. (Thank you Jesus!)

As I am talking to my mother-in-love I say to her, “I know God is teaching me to lean, lean into Him, but also to lean into the fellow Christians around me for support.”

As I hung up the phone and the day went on this “Lean” word has really stuck to me.

She sent me an email to remind me to L

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Friends we are not fighting this battle alone.  

 Don’t carry the burden all by yourself.

And even more importantly don’t be ashamed.

Everyone’s burdens are different.

Some days are easy and some days just plain out STINK!!

It was never meant to be just your burden to carry.   

Take the load off and remind yourself today that He is a mighty good God. 

 He is ALWAYS in control—even when we can’t feel it. 

 He loves you more than you can ever imagine.

Please, please don’t forget He has placed people who love you and want to be there for you in your life to lean on.

Don’t do it alone.  

Lay it down whatever it is before Him and just LEAN.

Lean into Him, Lean into a friend, just remember to LEAN

2 Corinthians 4:7-12

But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.  We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.  We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.  For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body.  So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

Galatians 6:1-2

 Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted. Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

Psalm 68:19

Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior,
    who daily bears our burdens.