Trusting God to fix the broken · Echoes From the Father’s Heart

Denise Roberts

2d • General discussion

Trusting God to fix the broken

I remembered this poem during my prayer time today I feel it may bring healing to someone who needs to hear it

As children bring their broken toys

with tears for us to mend,

I brought my broken dreams to God,

because He was my friend.

But then, instead of leaving Him,

in peace, to work alone;

I hung around and tried to help,

with ways that were my own.

At last, I snatched them back and cried, “

“How can you be so slow?"

"My child, " He said,

“What could I do?

You never did let go”.

That poem carries such a gentle sting, doesn’t it?

It’s so simple, but it exposes something very deep in us. We say, “God, here fix this,” but then we stand over His shoulder the whole time. We don’t actually release it we supervise it.

That poem isn’t a correction from God.

It’s comfort.

“My child you never did let go.”

That’s not rebuke. That’s tenderness. It’s the voice of a Father saying, You’re trying to carry what you were never meant to carry.

You are not missing the mark.

You are not failing to hear God.

There’s a difference.

When Elijah was overwhelmed, doubting, and exhausted, God didn’t correct him. He fed him. Let him sleep. Sat with him in the cave. And then spoke in a whisper.

Because sometimes the most spiritual thing is not to “press in”

but to rest under the whisper.

God isn’t distant.

Right now, God is not asking you to listen harder.

He’s asking you to lean back.

You don’t need to hear Him clearly today.

You need to be held by Him.

And it’s okay to say, very simply, without big prayers:

“God, I’m too tired to hold this. You hold me.”

When you try to fix things You’re helping God again.

Not because you don’t trust Him…

but because you’re responsible. Faithful. Used to carrying things.