God's Word really carries me every day.

Loving fathers give their children guidance on how to deal with all the hard things in life.

Lots of the time, we just think of the Bible as history or life lessons or poetry or - unfortunately - a collection of 'thou shall' and 'thou shalt nots!' All those elements are part of Scripture.

God's Word does provide life lessons to teach us how to live. And it gives us beautiful poetry that gives voice to our human experience. And, yes, it does give us clear boundaries of what we should and shouldn't do so we can live our best lives.

The difference between bitter and better is I.

God stays faithful to us in spite of our repeated failures.

God does give us the history of his people.