If you’re like me, your toolbox is probably about full… but if I get the opportunity, I’ll still add another tool to it. There always seems to be one more tool I need for some reason. Sometimes it’s a specialty tool that only gets used once in a blue moon — or maybe even just once.
I’ve always said you can’t have too many tools, although my wife would probably disagree with that statement. Over the years, I’ve spent a good part of my life collecting them, and most of them eventually get used while working on the C10. Some days it feels like I have 90% of the toolbox scattered all over the shop floor trying to figure out one problem.
But there’s one tool I sometimes forget that I already have — and honestly, it’s probably the most important one in the box.
Prayer.
I can’t count the number of times I’ve tried everything else first before finally stopping to pray. But lately, I’ve realized more than ever how important that tool really is. No matter what life throws at us — stress, fear, uncertainty, frustration, or just trying to figure out what comes next — prayer has a way of slowing us down and reminding us we don’t have to carry everything on our own.
Most of the time, when I open my toolbox, I can quickly tell if something is missing. But when it comes to the toolbox for my life, I sometimes overlook the one thing I need the most.
Thankfully, I’m getting better about using it.
The older I get, the more I realize prayer isn’t the last tool I should reach for… it should probably be the first.
So what tool have you forgotten you already have? Are you using the most important one?
From The Shop Stool