Good morning everyone,

Psalm 51:17-The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

With this week being my son’s first official week at a new school it has been a very difficult emotional transition for him in leaving a lot of his friends and teachers. Though he is only 7, the Lord really has allowed me to be understanding and relate with him in his struggle with life where he is at, and my own struggle where I am at.

Our conversations on the way to school, eating dinner, and prayer at night have been about being being broken or humbled by life and needing God for strength all the time. Like myself, he also struggles with maintaining a sense of brokenness of heart and spirit, that the feeling of being inadequate, unsure, and vulnerable is naturally a dreadful feeling. But what the Lord has been teaching me since being a believer is that the reason we dread feeling vulnerable is because we are filled with a self confidence that needs to die, and be replaced by confidence in God!

His week of school, while relating to him during it has been very helpful for me. Just like he is broken over a situation that makes him vulnerable and needing comfort. I need to be consistently broken over my sin, and how vulnerable, and inadequate I am to overcome it without a "lively" faithfulness to Jesus. Being broken in the eyes of the world is pathetic, but in God’s eyes it is precious, because you are in touch with the sin that crucified our Lord and hate it! Also I believe it has helped my son see how practical humility and faith is for us as Christians, that will connect us on the same level.

In His Love, Ld