Bread She Said...I think I'm The Braided Kind - What Kind are You?

Is He Molding You?

I woke up this morning thinking how its okay to say "You don't have all the answers." I think that's being honest. I think its the people who think they DO have all the answers that are the ones who really need to take a good hard look at themselves.  I look at those people with disbelief in my eyes and I say, "really?"

Maybe when we admit to being imperfect, not knowing, questioning, wondering - that God says, "Okay, this is when you are mold able. I can work with you now..."

As I'm typing this, I get this picture of my head of someone making bread. Actually "throwing" the dough down hard on the table, taking the palm of their hands and pushing down on it.  Have you ever seen someone make bread?  Maybe that is what God does with us.  But we have to be pliable. Maybe He allows us to go through the things we do in life so that we can get to a point where He can make "our dough" the consistency that it can be made into something.... better. A workable consistency...

Maybe the pain we feel is us "being slammed" down on the counter with different things that are happening in our lives.  Growth can be painful.  For those of you reading who are females, do you remember the feeling of growing into womanhood during your pre-teen age? I do.  When our bodies were changing?  There were growing pains....(Sorry guys I'm not male so I can only add my own experience to the mix... no pun intended - hehehe) I can remember my kids saying they were having pains in there legs, in their knees. I would tell them it was growing pains (and it was).

The thing I think we sometimes forget - is that spiritually we are constantly growing. For as long as we have breath in our bodies - it doesn't stop. He Who is the Author and Finisher of our faith gives us the grace, the guidance and the strength to get through the "next" portion of our lives.  And only He knows what it is.  I don't know about you - but I'm quite glad He doesn't show us everything at once. I honestly don't think we can handle "everything." I think it would be too overwhelming. Maybe even mind shattering to see every portion of our lives.  God is a God of grace.

I know this may sound weird to some - but have you ever stopped to think about this?  If we are in a physical situation where we are in too much pain, God gives us the grace to be able to "pass out" "lose consciousness" so that we don't have to endure more than we can bear.  I can't say I say that from personal experience - because I never have passed out. But its a physical mechanism that God put in place so that we don't have to endure more pain then we can bear.  At least that is how I see it...

I think its okay to admit we don't always have the answers.  That we need His help. His guidance.  That we feel lost - and uncertain and sometimes, like we learned when we are kids - that if we get lost, to sit still and wait for help.  Are you waiting for help?  He says "He will NEVER leave nor forsake You." (Hebrews 13:5) He also says "He has engraved you in the palms of His hand." (Isaiah 49:16)

I know the plans I have for you...
"...For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord,
"Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future..."

Jeremiah 29:11

Even through the most difficult moments of our lives - when we are just trying to get from one moment to the next - He is there.  I sometimes forget that, its good to know that even when we are not consistent - He is.  No matter what.