I Found That If I Pray For God To Move A Mountain, I Must Be Prepared To Wake Up Next To A Shovel

Finding peace starts with surrendering our worries to the universe and trusting that God’s guidance will meet us in the middle of our uncertainty. Best-selling author of Finding God Every Day, Rebecca Simon, reminds us to trust God’s timing, embrace patience, and lean on His presence through every season of life.

Sometimes the answer to our prayers isn’t a miracle that removes the weight — it’s the strength to start lifting it. 

We bring God the things in our lives that feel too heavy to hold or impossible to move — the problems we don’t know how to solve, the situations we wish he would simply remove. And while prayer matters deeply, faith is rarely passive. Sometimes God answers by giving us strength instead of shortcuts, direction instead of immediate relief.

There are seasons where God doesn’t move the mountain for us — he invites us into the work. Not because he needs our effort, but because he wants our participation. He provides the clarity, the endurance, the courage. We pick up the tools. We take the step. We show up, trusting that he will meet us there.

Miracles don’t always arrive all at once. Often, they begin quietly — where trust meets action, and obedience becomes the answer to our prayer. And little by little, the mountain starts to move.