When You Don't Feel Ready

Lord,
I don't feel ready for this new year. I don't feel prepared. I haven't done all the leg work that seems required of me to succeed. Lord, please remind me that the idea of who I am and what I'm going to be, is not up to me. It is up to you. I praise your name for that. Thank you for being more than enough for me.  Thank you that I don't need to have all of the plans made and the goals written down. Thank you for seeing my heart and knowing who I am at the depth of my inner most being. I'm so grateful that I know whose I am so that I don't have to stress over who I want to try to be.  You cover me with a blanket of grace and your unconditional love for me knows no bounds. Your power is made perfect in my weakness. When I seek you with my whole heart I know that I will find you and you will carry me through the peaks and the valleys that this new year will bring.  You say there will be trials but I will take heart because you have overcome.  Lord, I trust you. I trust that being "ready" for this new year simply means to have you at the center of my life.  You are the keeper and defender of my soul.  My safe place and refuge.  With you Lord, I am ready for anything.
AMEN

Verse:
2 Corinthians 12:9
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.