Crazy Ol' Loon!

For those of you looking for posts over the weekend, sorry! I have decided that weekday posts will be a regular thing but I need some grace for weekends and so you may or may not have weekend posts, just fyi.

So, last night, after the crazy busy weekend I mentioned above, I curled up in bed and started watching Beauty and the Beast, the ultimate Disney classic. As I was laying there, drifting off to sleep, Gaston and Le Fou (Gaston's partner in crime) encounter Belle as she is heading home to her father, Maurice. Le Fou says in relation to Maurice, "That crazy ol' loon! He needs all the help he can get!" Just then an explosion happens in the distance and Belle runs off to check on her father.

When I heard that line, which I have heard a thousand times before, it resonated in such a clear way last night. I'm Maurice! I'm that crazy ol loon! For those of you that know me, I know you just said a loud "Amen!" But that's not really the part I want to focus in on. The piece of that line that stood out was "HE NEEDS ALL THE HELP HE CAN GET!" Yes, that's me!! I am realizing more and more that I can't do this thing called life alone. And honestly, I don't want to. Often times, I sway back and forth on this pendulum as I try to be self sufficient depending only on myself to take care of life and then to the other side where I really need to stay. Let's talk about the other side for a little.

The other side is the side in which I am completely dependent on the Lord to supply everything that I need, physically, emotionally, spiritually, relationally. He's promised he will do it in Phillipians 4:19: "But my God shall supply ALL your needs according to His riches in Christ Jesus." It's amazing how often I see all but hear some or I know He says all but I think He only means some. In correlation to needing the Lord, we need each other as God has created us for relationships. So much of the Bible is written to us as to how to properly be in relationship with others, how to handle conflict, how to love, etc. We can't look at Scripture and think that we are to go this journey alone. We need help, all of us. When we deny this fact, we limit God, we limit our relationships and we limit ourselves.

I need all the help I can get! I will shout it from the rooftops! I am not ashamed to let people know that I need them. I may be humbled in the process to ask for help but that is only because asking for help is contrary to culture. We see those that ask for help as needy or less than. But why would God tell us to ask, seek and knock (Matthew 7:6-8)??

God, I am asking, seeking and knocking for your help! I need it! I need all of it! Yes, the world may call me crazy for relying on You and trusting You but I would rather be a crazy ol' loon any day!