https://anitamathias.com/2012/04/30/gideon-and-the-power-of-helplessness/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Fri, 02 May 2014 18:22:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://anitamathias.com/2012/04/30/gideon-and-the-power-of-helplessness/#comment-17546 Tue, 01 May 2012 20:03:49 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/04/30/gideon-and-the-power-of-helplessness/#comment-17546 Thanks much, Short Poems! 🙂

]]> https://anitamathias.com/2012/04/30/gideon-and-the-power-of-helplessness/#comment-17545 Tue, 01 May 2012 20:03:47 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/04/30/gideon-and-the-power-of-helplessness/#comment-17545 Thanks much, Short Poems! 🙂

]]> https://anitamathias.com/2012/04/30/gideon-and-the-power-of-helplessness/#comment-17544 Tue, 01 May 2012 20:01:10 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/04/30/gideon-and-the-power-of-helplessness/#comment-17544 Love this post and your blog 🙂
Beautiful work!

]]> https://anitamathias.com/2012/04/30/gideon-and-the-power-of-helplessness/#comment-17543 Tue, 01 May 2012 20:00:53 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/04/30/gideon-and-the-power-of-helplessness/#comment-17543 DJV, love your apt description of the runaway train!!

]]> https://anitamathias.com/2012/04/30/gideon-and-the-power-of-helplessness/#comment-17542 Tue, 01 May 2012 07:07:38 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/04/30/gideon-and-the-power-of-helplessness/#comment-17542 I love this it is so descriptive of human nature ; we so often rely on just our own strengths and then as soon as problems escalate and seem insurmountable we go to God; bit like a runaway train scenario nobody at the controls can stop it so then its over to you God , HELP!”
If only we had started off with God at the controls then perhaps the train would not be a runaway.
Trusting in God in all our tasks before they become seemingly impossible is perhaps like that father and child relationship that populates heaven.

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