Have you had your break today?

This isn't an invitation to go out and get McFats, for those of you who remember the title of this post being their slogan.

I'm asking this as a serious question. Have you had your break today? Have you honestly given yourself the time to sit down, and be still--have you given God the chance to speak?

This isn't some religious ritual, some superstitious practice that claims to ward off bad luck or whatever.

I'm talking serious self-improvement here.

And yes, I will go as far as to say you could use improving.

I could too for that matter.

But that's the beauty of it. God didn't care how in-need-of-improvement we are. He loves us for who we are, and that was good enough for him to die in humiliation and disgrace for us.

More than that--as if there could ever be anything more than that--God chose those with obvious room for improvement to outdo those who had no need for as trivial a thing as improvement. In other words, God uses the bottom of the food chain to eat the top.

Sometimes the world is pressing in on all sides, I know, trust me, I've been jabbed in the ribs more than once. It's hard, but it's not the end of the world. You can get through it.

Don't bother with other people's opinions of you. It's not worth it.

Don't be anxious. Be grateful.

Instead, take a break. Sit down for a while, shut the door if you can, and marvel at the awesomeness that is the Lord God Almighty.