I am reading Larry Crabb tonight. I don't know him personally, but wish that I did. Here is a nugget from his book, The Safest Place on Earth.

We moderns tend to think of our spiritual journey as a God-directed adventure until something goes seriously wrong or until certain problems persist past the time we give God to take them away. Then we think about solving the problems more than about finding God in the midst of them. We focus more on using God to improve our lives than on worshipping Him in any and every circumstance. We think more about pathology—what can be fixed—than about the journey we're on.

That, my friends, will preach.