dear lord i speak to you now with a heart filled with so much heaviness. a cloud filled day. i long to persevere…. and am tired i feel unequipped. i am not great. all this is new to me. i do long to capture each teachable moment of the lives of my children to send them into this world grounded in the knowledge of you, with strength of fine man and gentleness to care! -i feel overwhelmed by all my jobs they are too much: to provide. to be there whenever they need me. to teach and train. to keep our house, manage our home. to be the one that they can count on to take us through life storms to be the one who can answer the questions of their souls: what makes a man a man? do they really pray? how do i manage stress?.. is there a way beyond simply hiding or shifting from it? what is happiness?.. must i always be? what do i need to stay there? can it be exist within my own self? is courage fearlessness?.. or the ability to walk over my fear? what is failure? …..what does it say about me..anything? how do i swerve free of addiction problems in this minefield Read more...