Today was one of those days. It had its ups and its downs. It started off with a down. I slowly climbed back up. Mid-morning I sat down in Starbucks with Broken-Down House and opened it up to start reading where I'd left off. I didn't realize it, but I'd opened up the book to a different page. I began reading and began here... "...as we experience the reality of life in this house, sometimes it will leave us confused and overwhelmed. Sometimes it will leave us hurt and angry. Sometimes we will give way to envy because the house of someone living nearby seems far less broken. Sometimes we will just get weary of the stress of it all and long for a house in perfect repair." from p. 85 of Broken-Down by Paul David Tripp I was then comforted by this reminder farther down on the same page of this book... "You have not been left alone...He knows who you are and he knows where you are living. he knows how hard it is to live in...