The Red Wagon

    It is funny how when you are young, you look forward to growing up and being an adult.  But once you grow up and become an adult, you wish you could be young again. I do not think I can say I am fully an adult, but the majority of people refer and talk to me as one. I believe at the age of 20, I should be focusing on school. Rather, I hold many responsibilities; I am a student, a youth leader, a church secretary, a leader of my family, an ate, a Christian, etc. I gladly accept these roles, but when I was a child, I was simply a child. I was a child in a red wagon being pulled by my parents.

    As I get older, it is my turn to pull this wagon, and as I stroll along, different things get put into it. You see, this wagon contains everything with which God has entrusted me. Despite the overwhelming expectations, I know I am able to handle everything that He gives me, because He has this plan for me. And I know that it is normal to feel overwhelmed and stressed with such responsibilities that I get to have in my wagon. Despite the pressures, as I continue to grow up, I learn to cherish and take care of this wagon, because if I do not, everything may fall over while hitting an uneven pavement. I am sure no matter what I do, I will still stumble and may even get too weak to pull. When I do, my prayer is that I’ll turn to Jesus. As I get older, I have been learning to seek God, even learning that I am still God’s child in this wagon that He is pulling to one day be with Him.

    I came across this song the other day, and it is like God spoke to me because my life has been a constant struggle lately, that I tend to turn to my own solutions.

"Turn your eyes upon Jesus
Look full in His wonderful face
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim
In the light of His glory and grace"

-Hel­en H. Lem­mel, 1922

by Sarah Sabado

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