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.

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

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

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

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.

Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift.

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