Wake Up Call

My new schedule requires me to get up at 5 a.m. to work a couple hours before beginning my day job at 7 a.m. I know to anyone who is an early bird out there this seems normal, but for me this is a HUGE adjustment.  Whether or not "Morning People" exist (I think the whole term is probably a conspiracy by folks like me who stay up too late and who just don't want to get out of bed in the morning), I have never naturally gotten up this early and thought it was a good thing.  

Couple with this the new reality that my day job is physical, and demanding. 
Couple with that the idea that we just picked up and moved across the country.
Add to that a bunch of grief that I can barely access let alone process regarding my mom's death.
Sprinkle in the enormous work of starting Hopesprings in Sioux City.
Throw in a dash of an enormous (and exciting) next few days of moving into our first house.

I will stop there.
(There is more, but I think I have made my point...)

This is a recipe for weariness.  For physical, emotional, spiritual, cellular weariness.  And we are a week in. (Weak in?  Sorry that is the 5 a.m. talking) Getting up this morning was difficult...and I mean physically rolling out of bed...I mean getting my brain to rule out the roar of my "muscles". I haven't seen Summer much this week...and I know she is busy with kids and the logistics of the move.

This morning as I was waking up, I got into the Scripture. I flipped on my phone, went over to the YouVersion app, (whichisamazingyoushouldgetitandloveitrightnow) and just read the chapter from the verse of the day. This is what I read:

Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord,

And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God”?

So often I think or feel or act like I am in this alone, like God is out to get us. In my stress, worry, anxiety, weariness I assume one way or another that God is absent. This is so ridiculous I am ashamed to type it.

Do you not know? Have you not heard?


When God asks you rhetorical questions, WATCH OUT. Something is about to go down.  In a really good way. 

The Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth


Does not become weary or tired.


His understanding is inscrutable.

He gives strength to the weary,
 

And to him who lacks might He increases power.

Though youths grow weary and tired,
 

And vigorous young men stumble badly,

Yet those who wait for the Lord
 

Will gain new strength;


The Everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth, cares about the weary? About the ones who don't understand? The weak? Tired young folks? Those who stumble?

Unlike me, He is never tired or weary.

Unlike me, His understanding is perfect.

Unlike me, He is powerful.
And He wants to give those things away. To us.  

They will mount up with wings like eagles,


They will run and not get tired,


They will walk and not become weary.

Get up. Run. Walk. Move. This is exactly the passage on exactly the morning I needed it.  Have a feeling I will need it often. Like every hour or so. We are in a place of need, weariness, worry, stress, but God is overcoming all of those things, reminding me that this is His rodeo, that this is what He wanted and what He has been moving along all along.  He is giving us His strength, His understanding, His power. And His is more than enough for me today.