We want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention.

A FATHER'S GREATEST FEAR is usually that he won't be able to provide for his family. A mom's greatest fear is typically that something will happen to one of her children. Fear is a funny thing. It sometimes provides healthy caution, but more times than not it seems to produce undue stress and anxiety regarding things over which we have little to no control.

Today's choices become tomorrow's circumstances. Proverbs 27:12 says, "The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.

If God is good and God is good to me, then I must fill in the gaps of all the unknowns of my life with a resounding statement of trust: God is good at being God.

Life as a Christ follower will always be a learning process of depending less on our own strength and more on God's power.

do. "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

In God's plan, you've got a part to play. If you know it and believe it, you'll live it.

My ability to heal cannot depend on anyone's choices but my own.

Maybe you've been entrusted with this. Not cursed with it.

I don't know all the details entangled in this issue. But You know all. Therefore, You, God, are the only One who can handle all. There are a lot of things my flesh is tempted to seek—fairness, my right to be right, proof of her wrongdoing, to make her see things from my vantage point—but at this point, the only thing healthy for me to seek is You. You alone. I'm going to be obedient to You and let You handle everything else.

So I fight for her. Not because we will reconnect. We haven't. And we might not. Not because she's right. Not because I'm right. I fight for her simply because I want to stay right in step with honoring God.

God loves me too much to answer my prayers at any other time than the right time and in any other way than the right way.