Some days and weeks lead to questioning who is following you around with a rain bucket irritatingly dripping water down you neck. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking about days of dread or even days of mountain climbing up shale (you know, three steps forward and two steps back). I’m talking about the pesky fly that won’t stop dive bombing you, or the broken heel as your walking into a party or even just pouring that delicious cup of coffee only to realize that you forgot to program the coffee pot the night before (fail)… Little things that really aren’t big deals by themselves, but make your day or week feel like you need to keep looking over your shoulder for the next rain cloud. If you can only hold everything together (where’s the baling wire?!)

Colossians 1:16-17 says, “For by him all things were created: things in heaven and things on earth, visible and invisable, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities, all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things and in him, all things hold together!”

In HIM, all things hold together! I’m so thankful that I don’t have to hold all things together! Its not my job, or my responsibility to hold all things together. What a relief and what joy that brings to this control freak, people-pleaser on rain bucket days!

So what do we do when the drip won’t stop and the coffee is cold? We refocus, pull back and look at the bigger picture, there’s a bigger story that God is writing, but I can’t see it if I’m focusing just on the “drip”. 1 Peter 4:7 says we must be “clear-minded and self-controlled so you can pray”. And I would add praise… Praise for the moisture, praise for the time spent with Him while coffee is brewing, praise for the 2am snuggles with that baby God has gifted you with, praise for the legs and strength to keep climbing this mountain… Praise for the freedom to love my God out loud.

I’m not going to hold it all together anymore… I’ll let Him.