Today we finished reading Broken Down House
I definitely recommend this book....here's some excerpts from the last chapter that I really liked

"There is never a situation, location, or relationship that you enter alone. Your Lord is not away somewhere and he never sleeps. He never greets your calls with ab suy signal. He is never too tired or too busy to respond. he will never mock your ignorance or weakness, and he does not cruelly throw your failure in your face. He will never threaten that he is at the end of his rope with you. He will not grow weary of your inconsistencies, bored with your ambivalence, or irritated when once again you fall short." p. 223

"Even the trials he sends you way will supply what you need: the character to live for him more effectively. These are all evidences of his commitment to you, that you might be who you are supposed to be and do what he has created you to do." p. 223

Just about every poem in this book was very powerful...here's a taste

Legacy

Its' impossible not to
somehow
someway.
I will leave a
trail
behind me.
I will leave
footprints
for others to
follow.
Footprints of
relationships
values
character
worldview
worship.
Footprints
of some kind of
glory.
May my trail point
others
to the glory
that can only be found in
You.

p. 204

Trip, Paul David. Broken-Down House Living Productively in a World Gone Bad. Shepherd Press, 2009.