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I have always been one to plan and basically hold everything together. My budget is carefully reviewed months in advance. My mind has a built in calendar and task list. I have a plan for nearly everything. I’m logical and practical.

My life is “together” ...until it’s not.

I’m also a problem solver. I fix things. For a while I thought I was in the wrong profession. Maybe I should have been a crime scene investigator or a lawyer. Unfortunately this trait has been a roadblock in my relationship with God. Because too many times I jumped ahead of Him to do it my way.

And I can be so stubborn to listen to Him. I get frustrated and feel defeated when my desperate attempts to fix things in my life don’t work.

Last night I had one of these moments of defeat. I felt like I was failing as a parent and as silly as that may sound knowing how much I adore my children...it’s so hard sometimes to make sure I’m investing enough time into each of them. Am I reaching them?

So I prayed. I prayed that God would do immeasurably more that I was asking. I prayed that He would help me to parent with love and self-control, patience, and wisdom. I prayed for blessings for each of them and their safety. I prayed for their hearts to seek Him and draw closer to Him. I laughed thinking, “So this is what my mom did..” Whats so amazing about how God answers our prayers is that He wants to go above and beyond to do more than we even ask for because He knows us better than we know ourselves. When you surrender your life to Christ and walk in His peace...when you decide to live one day at a time placing your Hope in Him...the anxiety and worries of this world fade away.  There is nothing my God cannot do.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us… Ephesians 3: 20