Casting All Our Cares

I was reading in a devotion about 1 Peter today where he says, "casting all your care upon Him (God), because He cares for you." The devotion author mentioned about the verb cast and notated two different ways to cast. You can cast a fishing rod where you will reel it back in to yourself. You can also cast a rock into the water where it will remain, never to be picked up again. It made me wonder how I cast my cares upon the Lord? He wants me to cast them upon Him like I would throw a rock in a pond - never to be retrieved again. However, do I? It seems too frequently, I cast them upon Him as if I'm throwing out my line to fish, only to reel it back in again and try to handle it myself. I had never really thought about it that way. Had you? The key to why we do that is found in the previous verse. It says to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God. In order to cast it like a stone, we have to humble ourselves, admit that we can't handle the burden, only God can. From now on, I'll approach my time of supplication differently. I'll be more purposeful about casting my cares upon the Lord like I'd skip a stone across water, never to take it up again. I hope you will too.