Addison Crissone

Many times, we need to pour our hearts out to God. 
We need to let loose, lay it all out before him, and relieve ourselves of the burdens of our longings, our pain, our shame, and our fears. It doesn’t matter if it’s eloquent or well put together. Friend, you can be a mess sitting in a puddle of tears, and our God will still hear your cry. 
Take Hannah, for example.
She cried out to the Lord, pouring her heart out to him when life dealt her a heavy hand, and all she wanted was a child of her own. 
She was accused of being drunk.
Of being a woman gone mad.
When really, she was a woman of a bitter soul and a broken heart- a heart that she poured out to God through prayer. 
We may also be accused of some things when we pour our hearts out to God. 
We may be called emotional.
Odd.
Dramatic.
Foolish. 
This is true when we trust God too. 
Because the world does not and cannot understand why the children of God fall at his feet to praise and worship as they lay down their burdens. 
The world is incapable of understanding why on earth we choose to entrust our deepest desires and heart longings to a man that we cannot see.
They just do not understand.

But sometimes, pouring one’s heart out to God can be made into an offering, a sacrifice. 
For we are giving him all of it. All the pain, the sorrow, the shame, and fear. 
We are giving him good things, too. All of our hopes and our dreams, all of our hearts and all of ourselves. 
Sometimes, that is all we need to do.