In the Devozine magazine we use for Youth group it gives a 31 Day Instagram challenge. I'm not one to use Instagram, but want to try the challenge, so I am going to post my challenges on Facebook and my blog. The directions say to: Take a photo a day challenge and share how your faith is reflected in your everyday life! Day 1 of the Devozine 31 day Instagram challenge is QUESTIONS. I struggled with this one and how I could capture questions in a photo and as I sat and thought I remembered my readings from Chapter 4 of "Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World" when God asked a man to do him a favor and carry three stones to the top of the hill. Along the way the man picked up others stones till his load was too much of a burden for him. I see the term burden as questions or concerns I carry. In our discussion of the chapter we were given a rock and asked to write one word that described a burden we had. The more I reflected on it to me my questions I carry I see written on each stone some bigger then others, some smaller, but still scattered among each other weighing a burden on my thoughts and heart. In this I have learned that I don't have all the answers for the questions written on the stones, however God does and will only give me a load I can handle. "Nothing is harder to bear than a burden we're not called to carry. While God does ask us to bear one another's burdens, he has not asked us to step in and do what people are not willing to do for themselves. And while there are many needs, God has not asked us to meet everyone. (Joanna Weaver, Page 51, "Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World").
Give your questions to the Lord and let them go.
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