I bought a daily devotional for myself this year called Daily Gifts of Grace.  The goal was to read one devotion each day (duh). That hasn’t quite worked out as planned.  I fall behind and then end up reading a weeks worth of devotions in one sitting.

I thought I would share an excerpt from one I read today, that hit home with me.  Maybe it will touch you too:

“Working so hard to pretend that we have our lives totally together – and therefore should be in charge of everybody else’s – makes me want to say bad words and gobble up chocolate.  But there is hope beyond cussing and carbohydrates.  There is a path that veers away from the exhausting effort of self-reliance and back to the security we have in divine redemption.

And we’ll find the trailhead when we take our eyes off ourselves and instead focus on who God is.”

— Lisa Harper