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A prayer when you need God's help through your trials by Betsy de Cruz, read by Lea Martin.

Blessed is he whose help is in the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God, who

made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them.

Psalm 146, 5 through 6.

Any parent knows that airplane flights are sheer torture with kids under three.

We lived overseas so during our baby years visiting the United States meant a 24-hour journey.

Even as infants, neither child ever slept a wink during our long transatlantic flights

until the plane started to land.

Then they'd wake up in hell as we got off the plane.

At the start of each journey, I'd psych myself up with these words, no matter how bad this

gets, it will all be over in 24 hours.

And it was true.

We're trying to comfort a screaming child while everyone on the plane stared, felt like

a horror movie, but no trip lasted forever.

God got me through each one.

I'm not going to lie, those trips were grueling, but I did learn an important lesson.

No challenge lasts forever, and God helps us through everyone.

So what challenge are you looking at today, friend?

Maybe you wonder how on earth you'll be able to pack your house and move.

Once you doubt you have the strength to finish your project at work or make it through the

surgery or survive your teen's football season, no matter what you're going through, God

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