I went deer hunting yesterday and I can't tell you how much I love love LOVE sitting in the middle of the woods alone waiting and watching. It's four plus hours of quiet time in God's creation. Even if I didn't carry a gun and didn't want to kill a deer, I'd still go hunting! haha. There is nothing else like it. Every time I go I learn something new about my Creator or something new He reveals about me and my life. Yesterday I caught myself singing "How great is our God" in my head and then was overwhelmed at the thought that I don't have to ask God for anything...He already knows my every need. Sounds like a simple, obvious truth. But it's one I tend to forget often. With so much going on in my life right now, I feel almost overwhelmed with all the prayer requests both for my life and for those around me that I lift up in prayer. Sometimes I have SO much to pray for that I don't even know how to pray or what to pray for. It can be exhausting. So when I was singing that and I saw all the birds and squirrels scurrying around it hit me in the face that He knows exactly what we need and WHEN we need it. If He takes care of the birds and the squirrels and even the trees and the plants...how much more will He care for us? :) The reason we pray isn't to tell Him what we need. Or to suggest what we think He should do for us....but instead, we pray because it shows faith. It shows that we are trusting Him, the source from where all good things come. And I can't tell you what that simple truth did in my heart yesterday. I will certainly still be praying for all the many many requests that me and those around me have...but now I can rest more in prayer. Reminded that it isn't (and wasn't ever) up to me and my many words or how many times I bring it to Him or even my actions... But that I take it to my Savior because I'm trusting Him to work it all out for the best for those who love Him. Thankful tonight for a Savior who is restless in His pursuit for me and who's love is endless.
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