"I need a sense of release from the anxious cares that have made me feel hopeless. Sometimes the demands on our mind and our time combined with aggravating hindrances to getting it all done are like tight straps around the soul that squeeze all the life and color out of it. I need to feel those straps broken and a great swelling of hope."-
*That is EXACTLY the cry of my heart. Thank you Piper- once again you've described the inner workings and longings of my heart in understandable, eloquent words of truth.

---Nothing can cut those suffocating bands of anxiety from our soul except one thing; the promises of God----- He is faithful, capable, loving, all-knowing, my Best Friend....

----I have never learned anything about trusting God from the easy times, only from the hard--