Figure It Out

It echoes in my head.
From somewhere.
Someone.
Maybe multiple someones.

My dad?
A teacher?
A boss?

Figure it out.

But not in a fun way.
Not a puzzle.
More like pressure—to perform something I don’t yet know how to do.

I can almost feel the frustration in it.
Maybe even disappointment.

And right now, it feels like there’s a lot to figure out.

Maybe that frustrated voice isn’t coming from outside at all.
Maybe it’s your own.

The Proverb says, lean not on your own understanding…but trust in Him.

It’s an invitation to stop figuring it out—
or at least, to stop figuring it out alone.

It says, stop putting so much weight on yourself and let Me have a look.

It invites us to the text as if to say,
I’ve already written something for this exact moment.

Not a voice frustrated by our shortcomings,
but one that’s patient—warmly expectant.

Lean not on yourself.
The weight is too much.

Lean on Me.
We’ll figure it out together.