“I can’t do it all” were words I heard flow from my mouth this morning.

I was walking to the bus with my youngest and was trying get his lunch into his backpack on his moving body. As I tried to juggle the unzipping of his backpack, while holding onto his lunch and the dog’s leash, I heard those words come out of my mouth. It wasn’t working on my own and I needed my son’s help. So I asked him to hold onto the dog while I placed the lunch in his backpack.

I love to help others but I am not the best at asking for help.

When I heard myself say, “I can’t do it all” it hit me to the core. These words reflected a truth to me I needed to hear, specifically about work.

For years now I have worn every hat in the business, and some of the hats I wear, just don’t fit me. It will take me hours to do something someone else could do in 20 minutes. I have been hesitant to invite people beside me to help. Yet today I admit to you, and to myself, I can’t do it all. And I am going to choose to invite people beside me so they can use the gifts God gave them, and I can get back to doing what I do best more consistently.

I share this with you today in case you too are try to do it all, at home or at work. I invite you to join me to...

pause. breathe. pray.

We were not meant to travel this path in life alone. God gave us each unique gifts that we were meant to share with one another. May God show us the gifts He gave us, and reveal to us who we need to invite beside us so they can bless us with their gifts. May we get out of our own way and admit we can’t do it all and invite other people beside us for the journey.

With love and hope,

Shawn

“Do not neglect the gift that is in you” - 1 Timothy 4:14 (or the gift that is in others)