I have not had the words to blog lately. But the following quote, from a commentary I'm reading on Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, rang deeply true to me as I read it. In fact, my mind even went to specific experiences. (Note: emphases mine.)

A great many people are distressed by impure temptations, and they fail to make progress with them for one reason, namely, that while they are anxious to get ride of sin in this one respect, they are not trying after righteousness as a whole. Uncleanness of heart and life they dislike. It weighs upon their conscience and destroys their self-respect. But they have no similar horror of pride or irreverence or uncharity...

The way to get over uncleanness is, in innumerable cases, not to fight against that only, but to contend for positive holiness all around; for Christlikeness, for purity of heart in the sense in which Christ used the expression ... is a will set straight towards God...

There is an old Latin proverb, "Unless the vessel is clean, whatever you pour into it turns sour." It is so with the human will. Unless the will is directed straight for God, whatever you pour into the life, of religious and moral effort has a root of bitterness and sourness in it which spoils the whole life.

(from Charles Gore, The Sermon on the Mount)

ps.... I just re-titled this blog and reposted it. I'm currently in San Diego on a business trip, and haven't had much time to spend on my favorite social networking site. (Well, my ONLY social networking site!) God bless, and I pray this speaks to you as it did me!