I can feel my nostrils flare, my pulse pick up, and the running mantra of how something is unfair, or hurtful, or wrong gets loud in my mind. I want to take action…..

With a purse full of pills, she had planned to take her life, but she decided to stop at the first church along her way because she had heard it was a sin to take her life. So, just in case, she decided to give God a chance and to prove if He was real, cared and loved her by stopping her.

“Oof” was what I wrote as a comment to a verse during this morning’s devotional time. I could not come up with a more articulate response. I felt like I had been socked in the stomach by the direction and wisdom in the short sentence.

Perhaps today you feel like a shadow; unseen, unnoticed and undervalued.

Like my van, I am often racing around from place to place, filling my proverbial trunk (and seats and floorboards) with tasks and appointments, therefore using up all my time and energy.

There was even a time when the devil got in my head and told me to quit because I just couldn’t do it. During these struggles, I would cry out to God for help, but it felt like He wasn’t there.