Strong Enough

The time has come that we are all heading back to school. I spent many years having mixed emotions as a student when “Back to School” ads would come out and now that I am a teacher I find myself having those same emotions. One thing that goes hand in hand with the beginning of a school year is lots of stress and anxiety. We have LOTS of deadlines and lots of new choices to make.

On my way to school on Friday for my first day I got stopped behind a bus that was trying to pick up a little girl that did NOT want to get on the bus. As I sat behind the bus I had many thoughts…was the girl a scared little kindergartener? was she scared of how big the bus was? did something happened that made her afraid to get on the bus? I will never know why that little girl clung to her dad’s chest as he waved the bus to go on without her, but I know that little girl got a lot of prayers from me as the day went on.

Some of you may not have trouble getting on the bus each school morning, but you may have something else in your life that makes you want to cling to someone’s chest and hide. I want to encourage you to not lean on your own during those times. Cling to God when those moments happen and He will hold you. We do not have to be strong on our own. We have someone that will be strong for us. With that I want to leave you with the words to a song that came on the radio after I saw that little girl on Friday morning:

"Strong Enough"

by: Matthew West

You must

You must think I'm strong

To give me what I'm going through

Well, forgive me

Forgive me if I'm wrong

But this looks like more than I can do

On my own

I know I'm not strong enough to be

everything that I'm supposed to be

I give up

I'm not stong enough

Hands of mercy won't you cover me

Lord right now I'm asking you to be

Strong enough

Strong enough

For the both of us

Well, maybe

Maybe that's the point

To reach the point of giving up

Cause when I'm finally

Finally at rock bottom

Well, that's when I start looking up

And reaching out

I know I'm not strong enough to be

Everything that I'm supposed to be

I give up

I'm not strong enough

Hands of mercy won't you cover me

Lord right now I'm asking you to be

Strong enough

Strong enough

Cause I'm broken

Down to nothing

But I'm still holding on to the one thing

You are God

and you are strong

When I am weak

I can do all things

Through Christ who gives me strength

And I don't have to be

Strong enough

Strong enough

I can do all things

Through Christ who gives me strength

And I don't have to be

Strong enough

Strong enough

Oh, yeah

I know I'm not strong enough to be

Everything that I'm supposed to be

I give up

I'm not strong enough

Hands of mercy won't you cover me

Lord right now I'm asking you to be

Strong enough

Strong enough

Strong enough

Remember in those stressful times YOU don’t have to be strong…Let God!!!

Sarah

Teen Leader