What Is Your Dream?

It is often tempting to try to strike bargains with God, but life is not a series of strategic negotiations with God; it is a moral drama of wisdom and foolishness, right and wrong, true and false, and good and evil. It plays itself out in even the most mundane situations of our daily lives. At the center of this moral drama is what defines our happiness. Perhaps there is no more important human thought than, "If I had___________, then I would be happy," because what holds your happiness controls your heart, and what controls your heart conditions your emotions, commands your choices, and shapes your behavior. - Paul Tripp, Lost in the Middle