My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

I've never walked to an altar in my life. I gave my life to Christ in my bedroom as a child.

But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept.

It takes deliberate and continuous effort to carve out time in our overfull schedules to listen to the voice of God.

My times of silence before God are very important to me now. I put everything else down, every word away, and I am with the Lord. When I'm quiet, life falls into perspective for me. I have a very active mind and I'm a worrier, but in those moments when I choose to put that away, I rest beside the Shepherd in still places. Why don't you give yourself a gift today? Turn off the television or the car stereo, put down the newspaper or the business plan, and in the quietness, rest for a while beside the Shepherd of your soul.

Theres not one good thought in me, apart from God. Thats the good news.

If you feel stuck, bring your whole self to Christ, not just the problem, but you. Ask God to change your heart. Commit yourself to pray to that end. It's God's heart to give good gifts to His children.