The Strength to do God's Will

          "The Strength To Do God's Will." That is what my dad always says at the end of his prayers and always have since I was growing up. It didn't really hit me until around Father's Day this year and that is maybe because I needed it at that time. As I have been writing, things were and still are a little bit confusing for me at this moment in my life. Yes, they are getting easier day by day and moment by moment but it will never be easy here on the earth.
           For me, I always need the strength to do God's Will, whether it is at my job or with my friends or other things. I cannot do life alone. That one phase covers how I feel and what I need at the same time. The needing part is "the strength" and the feeling part is "to do God's Will". I need the strength so bad. I have so many weaknesses that I can't even count all of them. I have to turn to God and stay strong in every moment. My job calls for it with the children and co-workers and even parents. My friends call for it, especially the ones I really care about. My family calls for it when they are sick or in need of some help.
            All of those little things, especially if they are all happening at the same time, I need strength to get through them and not just my own strength because that will get me nowhere. I couldn't last a day on my own strength. Trust me. This past month was the worst I had in awhile and I was just about ready to die (figure of speech). I just wanted to give up on everything. If I need the strength to do my own will, then I will, of course, need the strength to do God's Will because it can be even harder at times.
            It never fails that if we want to do God's Will that it is always the hardest way. Why you might ask. Well, it is because God is with us so it can be hard. We just can't forget to ask Him for the strength that we need here on earth. It is also hard to tell what is your will and what is God's Will but I look at it this way. Sometimes I try to back down from it because it scares me but at the same time I know that's not right to back away. If we are going through a hard time, there has to be a reason for it, whether it is for is or for the other person involved. Sometimes having God by our side while doing His Will will teach us something in the long run.
            Maybe not right away but maybe in the long run when we look back at the situation. Like I said, June was a hard month for me but just in those four weeks I can say that I was in God's Will. Why? Because I felt God growing me as a person and He still is. He is opening my eyes in a lot of new ways to understanding people better and just teaching me how to be humble again. God is also working on my anger, which I need a lot of work on. The Strength is the one thing we really need if we are going to be doing God's Will. Then, I, personally, think Love is the other thing that we need.
             It is more like give me the strength to do God's Will and to Love it and the people involved while I am doing it. You can look at it like: Strength in Love, Strength in Hope, Strength in Wisdom, Strength in Actions, or so on. There is always going to be that strength of some kind and in something else that you need to do God's Will. I could, along with you, add on to that phase in my prayers what I need the strength for.
              I also like how my dad says it because the phase is the last thing he always says in his prayers. I don't know if it is just a habit or if he is meaning to but either way I think it is pretty neat and here is why. When the prayer is done, that phase is something good to remember and to take with you throughout the day or back to your home. I say back to your home because I only now here it during holiday dinners for the most part. That is a good note to end on but at the same time you really have to mean it. By you, I mean me if I am going to start praying that.
              It has a lot of meaning behind it and I know that especially coming from my dad because he has been through a lot in his lifetime. There are times where he need God's strength to even keep alive and going. If that was the only Will that God has given him at that time then so be it. At least, he would be following God's Will with strength from God. Think about it: "How can you follow God's Will when it is so big, when you won't do something as small as just breathing?" Most of us want God's Will to be something big for us but how does God know if He can trust us with that kind of Will, when we don't do the small Wills He has for us first.