I read this today in Jeremiah 17 on the Our Daily Bread website:
9 The heart is deceitful above all things
and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?
10 “I the LORD search the heart
and examine the mind,
to reward a man according to his conduct,
according to what his deeds deserve.”

As I began my time reading the Bible this morning I was feeling down about my failures and my weaknesses. There are sins that are more easy for me to commit because of my personality. I am well aware of them. There are satanic traps that are very easy for me to fall into. I do the wrong when I know what is right.
Satan knows my weak tendencies very well and would love for me to totally fail. He passionately hates me and can use circumstances and people to ruin any honor I have given to Christ with my life.
After reading the Jeremiah 17 passage I asked God what He thought of my heart.
Then my husband got up from his computer work and began searching through our bookshelves for a Presbyterian Common Book of Prayer. He was looking for the original wedding vows that have the words that the wife must obey her husband in the marriage. He had just been on a message board where they were discussing marriage.
Then my husband began pulling out all kinds of dusty old books he had collected before we were even married. He would tell me the book name and their copyright year. He found two that were about short stories. They were of great interest to me. Lately I’ve been studying short stories to teach them to my children and to learn all the details of being a better writer.
I consider that what happened was an answer from God. He knows that it is in my heart to write.