🙌 It's the Friday Call to Worship! 🙌

There was a day this week that I put my sick toddler in front of a screen and fell asleep on the floor next to him. I bribed him with a smoothie to get through a doctor's appointment, and after 1 hour and 3 meltdowns in a pharmacy (not telling whose meltdowns), I gave him a popsicle in the bath tub if he would JUST TAKE THE MEDICINE. I limped to the finish line of that day.

We've all been there, although our circumstances differ vastly. We've all army-crawled our way through a hard day, tough week, or wearying season of life, some limping for years to the finish line. At the end of my long day, I told my husband it was a "get through it" day, plain and simple. And we got through it.

I threw the guilt and shame of exacerbated parenting, falling asleep on the job, bribery, and negative thoughts out the window. Not because I am strong, but because I was too tired to hold on to it.

That's where God met me this week - in being too far past my limits to be engrossed with myself. There's a "get through it grace" for hard times, and it doesn't have to feel super spiritual. If you can look at your valley for what it is, and look at God for who He is, that is worship.

Paul the apostle knew hard times more than anyone, and he said, "...Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me." (2 Cor 12:9) Listen to Hillsong Young & Free's "Never Fail" today. Pick just one line fro the chorus, and make that your army crawl anthem. His power really will rest on you.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 NIV:

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. ” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. [10] That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.