What four things are most important in your life?

The things that are most important to me:

• living in continual surrender to God
• cultivating deeper relationships (with my husband, children, & friends)
• nurturing a healthier life through exercise and nutrition
• carving out solitude for personal reflection

are always the things that get trampled by the immediacy of life. Life is a continual struggle to balance the demands on my time with what nourishes my soul. It is a rare day that I feel the most important things in my life were given adequate attention.

What do you think the world needs most?

We need an unveiling. We need to see ourselves as we really are. If we believed that God is who He says He is and that we are who He says we are, everything in our lives would be different. But without even realizing it, we see ourselves through pride-frosted lenses, believing God owes us something--anything!--and in doing so we smear His name and cheapen His glory. We are angry at the idea that a loving God could create hell...because we don't understand God's glory and we feel He owes us. If we can't see ourselves as God sees us, we can never be healed.