So often I have felt alone in my journey, yet I've been afraid to let anyone see my fear and weakness.

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.

Until Gettysburg," she continued, "I was working for the wrong reasons. At first it was to prove myself worthy in someone's eyes. Later it was out of guilt, trying to find atonement in God's eyes. But atonement is free, never earned. And I've learned that the only person I need to please with my life is God.

You pray. And you allow the Lord to be your strength. Remember the Lord doesn't give you strength. He is your strength.

Faith don't come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He's so trustworthy you be putting your whole life in His hands.

No terrain is too bleak, no distance too far that it will stop God from rescuing His own.