What a physique !

I remember going to the beach on the Atlantic coast when I was a kid.  Living in central Florida at the time it was almost a natural thing to do.  Later on, when in high school, we'd go for the parties we could have there.  Mom and dad wouldn't be around, just us guys, so we always managed to have a cooler full of our preferred adult libations.  The guys I hung out with were like me...just average Joes.  I remember distinctly how often we would see what may have been the next Charles Atlas's strutting their tanned and toned bodies up and down the beach.  For a bunch of sun fried almost skinny punks we'd see those guys and in awe someone would almost invariably say, perhaps with just a tinge of jealousy,  "what a physique"!  Nowadays I've got a body like that.....except the muscle mass is all located in the wrong spot....right around my middle.

Those carefree times were then, and now is now.  Now we carry on our daily lives differently.  We have families or relationships, we have jobs, we have bills, we have a plethora of things we need to think of, be concerned about, and yes, some to worry about.  Sometimes just the sheer weight of what we carry in our hearts and minds becomes pretty heavy....it all weighs us down.  And it physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually wears us out.  Often we carry loads that are far greater than we can handle.  If you're there, or have been, what do you do?

There is one guy who we often fail to see has the kind of physique that would cause us to cry out "what a physique" just as we did when we were but scrawny kids.  He's got astronomically huge shoulders.  His name is God.  He can pull more weight than any of us realize....He does it every day, for everyone, everywhere.  And He wants to pull your weight, my weight.  He wants to carry our cares on his shoulders.  Not to show us how strong He is.  Not to cause us to exclaim "what a physique", but simply because He loves us so much.  But......if you don't share those weights with Him through prayer, how's He going to carry them?

God is undeniably better built than Charles Atlas.  Let Him carry your weight !