"I have a wonderful and terrible truth for you. We become like the object of our focus. If our focus is on our needs, we become more needy. If our focus is on the harm others have done to us, we become harmful and angry people. If our focus is on material things, we become grasping and needy. And, praise God, if our focus is on Christ, we become more and more like Him."
-- Beth Moore, from "Living Free"

I am on this wacky journey right now where God is trying to really break off of me my dependence on anything or anyone but Him. I have run for too long. I need Him every hour. I am a pitiful failure and a waste of oxygen when I do not rely on Him.

We are at the brink of some new things, and I am excited and apprehensive about the thought of laying hold of some of them. We are very close to accepting a position at a church as youth leaders as well as worship leaders, and the prospect really thrills us both... being able to go into full-time ministry... and yet it is very daunting because we don't have the degrees and the stuff that most youth pastors work years to attain. But I know that God is in control... and if it is His will for us to go and do this, He will equip us for the task.