and renew a right spirit within me.

"For what we need to know, of course is not just that God exists, not just that beyond the steely brightness of the stars there is a cosmic intelligence of some kind that keeps the whole show going, but that there is a God right here in the thick of our day-by-day lives who may not be writing messages about himself in the stars but in one way or another is trying to get messages through our blindness as we move around down here knee-deep in the fragrant muck and misery and marvel of the world. It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think the miracle that we really get." ~ Frederick Buechner

it's interesting how satan can feed someone lies for so long that one begins to believe there could be no hope. the Lord continues to amaze me. when my broken heart, full of doubt and hopelessness consumes my thoughts, He vanquishes all evil and renews my soul. i realize that my fear and my doubt come merely out of not trusting in His power. i am FREE.