...a blessing in the midst of the earth...

                            Isaiah 19. 24

(How to approach 

         an impossible situation

         or relationship.

Be the blessing in it.)

Apply your mind to instruction

and your ear to words of knowledge.

                     Proverbs 23. 12

(God's Word is not about information,

                    but transformation.

It's not just about knowing more,

           but being changed by it.)

Behold, God is my salvation;

   I will trust and not be afraid;

for the LORD GOD 

   is my strength and my song,

and He has become my salvation.

                              Isaiah 12. 2

(I will trust

        and not be afraid.

God gives me a new song to sing.

    And that would be about Him.)

Righteousness shall be

         the girdle of his waist,

and faithfulness 

         the girdle of his loins.

                          Isaiah 11. 5

(That which we should wear,

 that by how we should act,

 that by which we should be known.

What does that look like

                        in this situation,

                        in this relationship,

                        in this interaction today?

Above all, 

           to honor Him.)

...for when I am weak,

       then I am strong.

              2 Corinthians 12. 10

(I can't do this.

"Exactly."

That is when God shines through.

He will sustain you

   with strength that is not your own.)

Behold, God is my helper;
the LORD is the upholder of my life.

                          Psalm 54. 4

(That reality changes everything.
God is here to help me.
I am not alone.
He changes how I approach things.
He changes the outcome.)

But I am like a green olive tree
                  in the house of God.
I trust in the steadfast love of God
       for ever and ever.

                           Psalm 52. 8

(Even in drought,
even in impossible places,
         evergreen and bearing fruit.)