We’re having a conversation on the inside all day long.  It’s been called “our inner narrative.”  In this conversation we rehearse things, mull things over, assess situations and make decisions.  This is why Solomon warned us to “guard our heart” because our lives are lived out of our narrative.   Sometimes the narrative has been given to us by others.  For example, if someone close to you tells you that you are a loser or stupid, that identity can become imbedded in your narrative.  People often spend their whole lives either trying to prove that wrong or living it out!  Sometimes we write our own narrative.  For example, people develop a “victim narrative.”  They spend every day mulling over their “short end of the stick.”  They begin to look for ways that they are being victimized and marginalized by their boss or co-workers.  The only way out of a broken narrative is to—gulp—invite God into the conversation.  I will warn you up front, He will not put up with a broken narrative because God tells the truth and a broken narrative is built upon lies.  For our good, God seeks to correct our broken narrative.  We call this invitation to the narrative “prayer.”  Once we invite God into this inner conversation we’ll have a choice to make about who we are going to believe.  I know from experience that allowing God to abide in this narrative is hard.  The devil wants Him gone.  Our culture thinks prayer is a joke.  You’ll try to kick God out of your conversation from time to time.  He wants to abide in our narrative more than we want Him to and thankfully He doesn’t quit as easy as some.  If your narrative is stuck in a rut, the best advice I can give you is to add the Scripture to your narrative.  Your inner conversation may be stuck like a broken record (remember those?) and you need some fresh material.  An interactive conversation with God using His Word is the best way to overcome a broken narrative.   If the Word is not part of your inner conversation, what will you do to get started?