Something that this fast has taught me, in 2025, is that I’ve almost feared weakness.

I’ve read the verse a trillion times… His power is made perfect in our weakness.

But I don’t allow weak. I like to be strong.

I’m a go-getter.

I’m a type A list creator and green check gal.

I love progress, goal setting, goal achieving, accomplishments…

Yes. All of that.

But there’s a deeper place of love that God presents Himself when we rest a minute in our weakness.

Let me explain.

On this fast, I’ve been without food for 4 days.

And my physicality really felt it.

My body was so weak.

But, I had to work, I had to bathe Charlotte, I had to help Clint cook dinner and clean up.

And my body was weak.

Normally I’d need a coffee, a sugary boost, to get me through- but none of that right now.

I don’t even have the capacity to worry, or let the panic of stress or the fight or flight of making things happen… no reserve.

So I don’t.

So it becomes God.

“God, I need your strength,” my heart whispers.

And better than a coffee ever could, I get a boost of life, like a cool wind on a hot day, as I depend on my Savior, my Lord, the Holy Spirit to be strong for me, even if it’s just to wash the dishes.

He soothes the temptation to panic. He works it all out without my effort.

Because He cares, because He loves, because He wants to help me.

When I am weak, He is strong.

All glory to you, God.

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“And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
‭‭II Corinthians‬ ‭12‬:‭9‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/114/2co.12.9.NKJV

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