Therefore lift your drooping hands
and strengthen your weak knees,
and make straight paths
                 for your feet,
so that
   what is lame
   may not be put out of joint
but rather be healed.
Strive for peace
           with all men...

                  Hebrews 12.  12-14

(How am I approaching
      this difficult person,
      this impossible situation,
      this ongoing struggle?
Am I slogging through a miry bog
        with a heart already defeated?
Or am I seeking God
   that He would strengthen me
   through it instead?
What is Your way in this?
God always brings
    something different to the table.)