I'll never forget the day I started my Dear God journal. The lord placed it on my heart to start writing out my prayers. I didn't know what to expect. I just knew God was real because He answered a crisis prayer years earlier. I definitely didn't know anything about daily intentional prayers.

As I sat there staring at the blank page, I thought about everything going on in my life. It occurred to me that I indeed had plenty of problems to share with God. Problems that no human was ever able to solve for me. So I went for it with a let's-wait-and-see attitude. Even then, I wasn't sure God could rescue me; my problems were impossible to solve.

The prayer went like this: Dear God, will you please help me with co-parenting? I don't want to lose the bond with my oldest son.

I didn't go into detail about the situation. I just wrote down my fear and the problem. God must have been waiting a long time for me to reach out for His help! My phone rang the very next morning at 7:30 AM. It was my ex-husband; he called me to let me know that he had an idea. Saying he didn't know why he had never thought of it before, but he wanted to help me where our oldest son was concerned. Then he started crying about everything. I know my face looked like a deer in headlights. All I could think about was that God made him cry! I was so excited that the prayer was answered overnight that I had a hard time having a normal conversation with him. He went on and on, telling me all the ideas he had to reinstate my relationship with our son. Now, bear in mind, this man fought me for custody for nine years. I felt defeated time and time again because no lawyer could help me. I wasted thousands of dollars on family law attorneys. No one, and I mean no one, could win against his family.

My ex-husband ran for county commissioner years prior, and he knew everyone in the court system. Looking back, I knew I didn't stand a chance. And if that wasn't bad enough, his sister got on the stand and said, "She will murder her kids if you give her any custody." The situation was beyond repair.

I definitely didn't know what to expect when I prayed about that situation. I was defeated, and my heart was broken.

I'm sharing this with you because I want you to know that God cares about whatever you are going through. No matter how broken your situation is, He can fix it. I know because, over the last eight and a half years, I've placed numerous impossible situations in His hands through my Dear God journal, and one by one, He answered them. My life used to be surrounded by chaos and trauma. Today I am healed and have found true peace. I can honestly say I know God and that He's capable of solving any problem.

I encourage you to sit down with your journal and take some time to look around at your life. Find the broken situations and write to God. He's waiting patiently for you to turn to Him and hand whatever is broken to Him.

I promise, it doesn't matter how screwed up you think your life is, He can turn it around. You just have to take the first step.