The LORD answered Moses, "Is the LORD's arm too short? Now you will see whether or not what I say will come true for you." (Numbers 11:23)
As much as I've cautioned myself against it over recent years, this summer found me back regularly working up to 16-hour days and half the weekends. We had a major product release yesterday and with Dee working for the same company and COVID keeping us mostly indoors, we both let ourselves get swept away by our computers.
Mixed in, for 5 weeks I had to lead weekly webinars to present the coming enhancements to our business partners and customers. It was a boatload of work to prepare for and the presentations were super-stressful (I had to make sure all the features worked, write the demo scripts, etc.).
Right before Week 4's presentation, I had just about had enough - I was overworked, wasn't getting much sleep, and I certainly was in no shape to lead the webinar with a smile for an hour. About 5 minutes before it started, I left my computer chair, walked over to another room, got down on my knees and lifted up a prayer: "Lord, I've got nothing left - please give me the strength, wisdom, words, and ability to get through this."
I picked myself up off the floor, got back in the computer chair, and started the webinar. An hour later I had words like the following filling up my Slack bin from my colleagues: "Frank, you are AWESOME! Informing, educational, and personal, all in one!!"
I just politely thanked them all but inwardly I had to laugh as I thought to myself, "If only they had seen me a couple minutes before it started." I really wanted to send a follow-up message with something like: "Frank, LORD, you are AWESOME!!" but I just decided to lift those words of praise to the heavens as once again He proved His arm is never too short for me. It is always well within my reach...I just need to remember to stop, look up, and reach out for it.