Early morning is usually very quiet. No one else is up and about; there are no hindrances such as phone calls or people knocking at the door. Even our cell phone is silent.

But in all this absence of outside things, the thoughts of our heart are busy. It's times like this when the hidden things, buried deep within, rise to a reckoning. It seems easy to bring our wounds and hurtful issues before the Lord. Rehearsing the situation and circumstances allows us to ventilate and speak our grievances...