This entry is going to be a little different...I wish to thank someone...my pastor. It has been almost two years now since an e-mail I sent to him and his response changed my life. It was a Friday in mid-June 2008...I was feeling really burnt out, so I sent an e-mail to my pastor to pray for me...what he sent me back changed the course of my life! In the e-mail he gave me a passage of Scripture for me to read Psalm 33...at that time I was reading my devotions in the Message Bible. So, that is what I read it in that night...I am so glad that I read it in that Bible...because it was the way that that translation put it that spoke to me...I have since read it in other versions and it didn't seem to stick out like it does in the Message. As I read that chapter, I began to cry...God broke me that night and that was a very good thing. I had become a very hard person, a very angry person...a person I didn't like, but didn't want to change because I thought that I deserved better...I had become selfish. However, that night was the beginning of a change in my life that hasn't stopped yet, and I hope it never does...I read that chapter, but I also read more...I went back and started near the to chapter 31 and stated near the end of that chapter and went all the way through to the end of chapter 34. What I want to say to my pastor is thank-you! Thank you for praying for me that day, but also thank you for obeying God and sending me that passage of Scripture. That is not the only time I have read that...I have read it many times since then...for a while I read it every day...what I want to say is that today I am closer to God than I have been in many years and God used you to start that process. Thank you. If that passage had not have broken me that night, I don't want to think about where I would have been right now, so thank you.