More than WE can handle?

I've heard, as I expect most people in the U.S. have, someone in life or on TV or somewhere state that "God will never give me more than I can handle." Or perhaps the opposite view's equivalent statement, "God can't be real, because if He was He wouldn't give us more than we can handle."
This seems to me to be an amazingly confused issue.
God doesn't ask us to handle anything on our own. He tells us to go to Him for strength in all things, to turn to Him in prayer and trust Him to work things out. So. How does this apply?
God does give us things we can't handle. But He gives us nothing that He can't handle. And says, "Trust Me on this."

Going to pretend...

Right now, I'm going to pretend that a) I'm not embarrassed that it's been so long since I've posted and b) that I can sum up the past month in a couple of paragraphs.
So. In the past month?
I finished the fall semester of college. Overall pretty good grades, but when they first came out, it registered my Intro to SpEd grade as a C-. Shock and awe (I got in all my assignments and I know they couldn't have been failed). Upon emailing the professor, the issue was resolved and the C- became an A-. The heart attack was still unpleasant.
My soldier brother came home for Christmas. We enjoyed the total lack of anything that needed doing, and had an excellent break.
Theater metasized and became this two-rehearsal-a-week thing that has us overly used to each others' presence. (Last week's rehearsal was the most intense for me - I did all my most intense acting short of dying. Be angry, grief-stricken, terrified, jump off the stage, etc.) Tech week is approaching quickly. Our fife-and-drum CD recording is also approaching quickly, with the first recording session being on a Sunday smack dab in the middle of theater tech week. We're preparing for our international trip as well.
So now - Starting this week, my life consists of two theater rehearsals a week, two mornings a week spent at kindergarten, fife and drum weekly rehearsals, Tuesday biology classes (two of them, a normal and a lab), online Intro to Philosophy, youth group, church, high school work, and perhaps a total lack of sanity.