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What Your Heart Can’t Carry

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My Daily Musings-October 20th, 2026

“Lay it down. The weight, the worry, the what-ifs. God’s hands hold what your heart can’t carry.”

We all face difficult trials. We all carry a heavy weight on our shoulders at times. Sometimes we might feel as if we can’t carry the weight on our own. We worry about our families, our friends, our financial situations, or what will happen in the future. We should learn to place our burdens in God’s hands. He won’t necessarily take the burdens from us. He never wants us to carry our heavy loads on our own. He wants us to reach out to Him, so He can help us carry the weight. He loves each of us so much because we are His beloved children.

It is hard to lay down our burdens sometimes. We may occasionally think that we can carry the load on our own. Sometimes we may think that He has enough to worry about, so He doesn’t need our load on His shoulders. The way I see it is that He has really big hands and shoulders. He is glad to hold what we can’t carry in His hands and on His shoulders. He never wants us to feel alone. He always wants us to reach out to Him. He has helped carry my burdens in the past. He is helping me now, and He will always be there for me. He will do the same for you. We just need to reach out to Him and trust Him enough to let Him help us carry what we can’t by ourselves. He will be there for us whenever we need Him.

What helps you remember to turn to God when your burdens feel too heavy to carry on your own? Can you think of a time when God helped you carry a burden, even if He didn’t take it away?

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Through the Waters and the Fire

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My Daily Musings-September 19th, 2026

Isaiah 43:2-“When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned: neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.”

Reading Isaiah has always been intimidating for me because some parts of that book of scripture are hard for me to understand. But some of my favorite verses from the Bible come from Isaiah. I came across this verse recently and I really liked it.

For any of my frequent readers, you have heard me say many times that we are never alone in our trials. This verse testifies of that. The first part, “When thou passest through the water, I will be with thee,” makes me think of the children of Israel passing through the Red Sea on dry ground. God was with them through their escape and afterward, when they wandered in the wilderness. This teaches us that our Heavenly Father will be with us during the storms of our lives. That doesn’t mean that the storms will be taken away from us, but it does mean that we won’t be alone when we are going through those storms.

I like the second part of the verse that says that when we walk through the fire, we will not be burned. It doesn’t say that we won’t have to walk through fire, or that we won’t have trials in our lives. But our Heavenly Father won’t leave us alone in the fire. He will be with us and we will not be burned. I don’t think this means that the pain of our trials will be taken away. But we won’t have to endure those difficult times on our own.

Sometimes our trials may seem so heavy and painful that we might feel like we our hearts are being broken apart. During those difficult times, we need to reach out to our Heavenly Father for help. He will help us carry our burdens and He will be there to comfort us so we won’t feel alone.

Have you ever felt God’s presence with you during one of the “storms” or “fires” in your life? What helps you remember that you are not alone when you are going through a difficult trial?

The Door of My Heart

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The Door of My Heart

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Backstory

Corrie ten Boom once said, “When we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus.” This made me think of Jesus standing outside a door. The door could represent our hearts. All we have to do is let Him in, and He will abide with us. But we may think that we don’t have everything together, or that our hearts are messy. If we let Him in, He will take what we have and make it more.

The Door of My Heart

I have so many things to do That I can’t keep going and I feel blue. I feel that I have nothing left to give, So I don’t know how I will live.
Just as I think this, I notice someone Standing outside my door, but it could be anyone. As I look out, I recognize who it is in an instant For it is my Savior, with His light shining so brilliant.
I look around my house and everything is messy So I don’t know if I should let Him in because I’m not ready. I open the door anyway and I let His light inside, I fall to my knees at His feet as I say that I have tried.
I apologize to Jesus about the mess, But it doesn’t matter to Him, so I don’t stress. He tells me that all He wants is my willing heart, And if I can give Him that, He will do His part.
I look inside my heart and I don’t like what I see, And I wonder, “Would He really want this version of me?” He embraces me and I feel His amazing love, That He brought with Him from His Father above.
The Takeaway: We might get so overwhelmed or stressed by our busy lives that we might consider giving up. We may sometimes feel that we are alone in our struggles. But we are never alone. When our strength gives out, we can always reach out to our Savior for help. He will take our messy hearts and make them into something beautiful.

Watch the YouTube Short here:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E3EQq6C_zHw

Have you ever felt too overwhelmed to open the door to Jesus? Drop a comment below and let me know—I’d love to hear your thoughts!

His Hand Beneath Mine

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His Hand Beneath Mine

Backstory

When I read this quote for the first time, it stopped me in my tracks. “Anxiety grows when you believe you must carry everything alone. Peace begins when you place what you cannot control into God’s hands.” I thought about a child trying to walk for the first time. He looks up at his father, who is there to catch him. He stumbles and falls many times, but he still tries to walk by himself. The child grows up and becomes an adult who still tries to do things alone. Eventually, the adult realizes that he can’t do everything on his own, so he falls to the ground and cries to his Father in Heaven for help. Then he realizes that his Father was there all along, helping him carry his burdens.

His Hand Beneath Mine

A baby is born and continues to learn and grow,
He tries to walk on his own but the progress is slow.
He tries again and again but he keeps falling,
But he just keeps trying and his determination is darling.

His father is there to catch him any time he may fall,
And he will be there to answer the boy’s call.
The child grows into an adult who keeps making progress,
But he still tries to do everything himself in the process.

He stumbles and falls many times as he tries to carry his burdens alone
Because he thinks that his worries and cares are to everyone unknown.
He gets to a point when he can’t get up off the floor,
So he cries out to his Heavenly Father as his heart is sore.

He asks His Father why he hasn’t felt his embrace
As he has fallen many times on his face.
He hears a whisper telling him that he was never on his own,
Even if he felt like he was carrying his burdens all alone.

He looks back on his life as he realizes he was wrong
And he sees that his Father has been there for him all along.
When his burdens felt too heavy for him to bear,
His Father had eased the weight as he had been there.

The Takeaway

We may think that we are carrying the weight of our burdens alone. But we are never alone. We need to trust that our Heavenly Father is there beside us to help us carry our heavy load. We can find true peace when we surrender to Him and let go of things we can’t control.

Watch the YouTube short here:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aVxrCFefhvI

Have you ever tried to carry a burden on your own, only to realize you needed to turn to God for help? Have you ever looked back on a difficult time and realized that God was helping you even when you didn’t recognize it at the time?

He Helps Me Carry

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Backstory

Psalm 55:22 says, “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.” This scripture held a deeper meaning for me this past week. The Hebrew word translated as “sustain” means to hold up or support. After pondering this meaning, I could picture a person climbing a huge mountain with a heavy backpack. Eventually, they cry out to their Savior to help them carry the heavy weight.

He Helps Me Carry

I looked up at the high mountain peak,
And my body felt so incredibly weak.
But I knew that I needed to climb
What was ahead of me at this time.

The load that I carried on my back
Seemed so heavy that I felt I would crack.
I only had myself to lean on as I started to ascend,
As I took step after another, not seeing the end.

As the weight of my pack got difficult to handle on my own,
I felt like my worries and cares were to everyone unknown.
I didn’t know if I could take one more step forward,
As I stumbled and fell to my feet backward.

In my moment of despair, I needed someone to help me,
As I knelt on the ground and whispered a silent plea.
“Please, help me to carry this heavy burden
Because I am desperate and I don’t know if I can rise again.”

In the stillness of the moment, I heard a gentle reply,
“You were never alone, for I have always been nearby.”
I could feel the weight of my pack get lighter
As the view ahead began to look brighter.

The Takeaway

Sometimes the weight of the burdens that we carry may seem too heavy to bear. We might feel like we are climbing a huge mountain with a heavy pack. But we don’t have to carry the weight on our own. Jesus is always there to help us carry what we can’t carry by ourselves. We only need to cry out to Him, and He will be there when we call upon Him.

Watch the YouTube short of me reading part of the post here:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hhxpDcV-sLU