Daniel 9:3-6,8-10 (NIV) 3 So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes. 4 I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed: “Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those ...

Psalm 40:6-8 (NIV)—6) Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but my ears you have pierced; burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require. 7) Then I said, “Here I am, I have come—it is written about me in the scroll. 8) I desire to do your will, O ...

Dear Mom, I don’t know what to say to you anymore.  You don’t talk to me.  You don’t listen and you are never home, so I thought I would take one last chance and write to you the old fashioned way. I don’t understand you anymore.  I thought we were ...