"I can do all things through Him who strengthens me"
I read that just now on a cross-stitch kit in a needlework catalog I was looking at.
I remember my Grandmother used to say this, all the time, only in a slightly different way:
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me".
Reading it this morning, as I feel overwhelmed by the tasks that I am faced with about the future, this is a strong and helpful reminder.
This came up just last month, in fact. I had a project that I had to accomplish, and I saw no possible way to get it started, what to speak of completed. It really seemed impossible.
I had to do it, and I saw no way I could, so I asked Krishna to please help me do it. Almost, literally to move me, do it "for me", "through me". I was asking this way, for His help, and then, suddenly, I was just able to do the whole thing.
It had seemed so impossible and I felt entirely helpless to accomplish it, any of it. So, I asked for help this way, and truly, it was like magic. I just did it, I got through all of it, easily, effortlessly. I felt entirely guided through it all, as if it was not even me doing it really. My hands moved, my body did things, my mind thought things, but I was not alone at all, it was not "me" who did it. It didn't even feel like a chore and I experienced none of the indecisiveness that I often do with projects of that kind.
I find it hard to ask Krishna for help that way, or to remember to ask for help, or to feel it's alright to ask for help (to that degree) with these day-to-day realities of life.
Sometimes though, there is no other way, and though I don't want to "bother" Krishna with my problems, it seems that He is ever-willing and ready to help.
It's hard to find the balance between "What can God do for me" and "What can I do for God".
It's personal. A relationship. Krishna is God, yes, but He is also our dear-most friend and well-wisher.
He is the strength in everything. The force, the power, the knowledge, the ability.
So, now, I'm asking for His help, and knowing that I can only do things with His help.
All Things. Whatever things I need to do.
"I can do all things through Him who strengthens me."
Hare Krishna.
