It's a funny thing when you have your hands tied...

...especially when you've learned to just work with your elbows.

"There's only so much you can do."

I love this phrase. Well, I say I love it because I must, since I use it quite frequently. I think my life is sort of ironic because I use this phrase (and the mentality that produces it) and yet I'm the sort of person that JUST WON'T QUIT. I don't. I hate quitting.

Most days.

But sometimes you just know...you just know you can't change things. I wish it didn't take me so long to get to this point before I trust that God is working. I wish that I would just let go of my need to be involved, my need to control all aspects...of everything. I find it difficult to balance trusting God and trusting my need to act.

Don't you?

And my heart breaks when I realize that my hands are tied, my elbows are sore, and I just have to LET GO and know that God is all-powerful and loving. My heart breaks because I should be thinking of this always.

But rather than dwell on this regret, I will simply (yet powerfully) be praying today. Because though there's only so much I can do...it's probably the most influential act I have in my arsenal.