My hope, my Father, my rest and peace.

I've always been the student who carries around a bit more than she needs. "What's with that?"... Maybe it's my thinking, "I don't want to be the student who always forgets something and sits in lack." Or maybe I don't want to be the one who always has to run back to her car to grab something...

I'm usually found with a pile in my hands and bag on my back. As far back as I can think back, as a student, I've always been this way, carrying a lot. 

And I think it may stand true physically and figuratively speaking at times. 

It's so crucial I that I daily let go. Put it all down. And realize I don't carry myself. I don't carry the people that I love. I don't carry the world and all its responsibilities on my shoulders. And when I feel some sort of obligation to attempt to carry all of that, it's a lack of trust and believe that God is stronger and able and just and sovereign.  

but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Lord, you are the answer. You are the savior. You are the peace. My peace. 

May my mindset be renewed. May I no longer feel a sense to carry it all because I might not get a chance to come back to my source. May I freely run to the source, daily, with no feeling of obligation to "have it all on hand" or not make one mistake. 

You have an open hand. An open-door policy. An undeniable access. THANK YOU JESUS!  

Taking off the load and resting in you, tonight, Jesus. For today I have tried so hard yet made mistakes and even grown weary. But in you I will find rich rest. 

Believing,

Grace

Romans 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,...through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.