It’s okay to ask for help.

Sometimes life throws us complete curve balls. Curve balls that curve when we do not expect it, and curves we can see from the time the ball left the pitcher’s hand. Either way, when that curve ball hits, it hits where we are most vulnerable with impeccable timing. By impeccable timing, I mean just when you thought you were okay. The next thing you know, you are curled up on your couch watching those terrible holiday movies that run repeatedly on the Hallmark and Lifetime channels sitting on a snowbank of used tissues.

It’s okay to ask for help.

What I want you to know when you are making of snow angels out of snotty tissues is that it’s okay to ask for help. Because the truth is, everyone needs it, and most everyone will give it because they understand.

People understand broken hearts. People understand overwhelming anxiety. People understand what it is like to be broken and feel like you are never going to feel better. People understand what is like to lose a loved one. People understand. People may not understand your specific situation, but they can understand that you feel hurt, upset, and helpless.

It’s okay to ask for help.

I know that a lot people claim that “it’s every man for himself” and that you need to “pull yourself up from your boot straps” because no one cares and no one will help. But, that is not true. The people who say that are the ones who have been hurt and went seeking for answers and relief in the wrong places.

It’s okay to ask for help.

Because God will help. Maybe not in the way you want or with the immediacy you want. If you ask him for help, he will help. I know that there are many people that do not want to hear this and do not see what God’s thought process is. You have to understand that it is not our job to understand. There is a reason why bad things happen. There is a reason why we don’t know everything. But, until you are willing to ask for help, you won’t see the good. God will help you.

It’s okay to ask for help.

Alongside God is an army of believers. Like any army, there are those who may not represent what this army stands for and believes in. Those people give Christianity a bad reputation. If you get past those people, you will see and understand an army so beautifully loving and accepting. We will help you. Maybe not in the way that you want or with the immediacy you want because we lean on God and we lean on his words and what he wants us to do. But, we will help.

So please, understand, that it is okay to ask for help.