You're listening to InCounter, a simple daily podcast to help you discover sacred moments

in the middle of an ordinary day.

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You're walking down the street, packages and boxes stack high in your arms.

In fact, you can't even see over them.

You start to feel your biceps and your thighs beginning to burn and ache under the weight

that you're carrying.

You start to feel weak.

Your goal is the door just a few feet ahead of you, but you begin to doubt if you have

the strength to make it.

Not to mention figuring out how you will open the door without the packages crashing to

the ground.

And suddenly, you feel the stack become a bit lighter.

One by one, someone is removing each box.

You watch as another someone opens the door for you.

You feel relief, surrendering to the help of another.

Well the theme of this meditation from Isaiah, chapter 40, is strength, finding strength

through weakness.

So to begin your meditation, slip into a time in a space where you can start to feel strong,

consent to surrender this time to God, spirit and sun.

And start by listening and responding to this prayer from Isaiah, chapter 41, respond,

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