Behind and Before I volunteered recently to share yet another devotional, this time with our homeschool group in honor of our last meeting for this school year. It would be a mixed crowd of young people and their parents. Then I started thinking, what could I possibly say that anyone would be interested in hearing? I wanted these kids and their parents, to know how much God loves them – how well He knows them – how much He is invested in them. Then I started to remember what life was like for me some thirty-seven years ago. I wasn’t the happiest sixteen year-old. I didn’t grow up in a Christian home. I certainly wasn’t homeschooled. My dad was absent most of the time, and my mom was emotionally abusive. I wasn’t a bad kid, but I wasn’t anything special either. I was prone to depression. ...