You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
I'd learned my lesson.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.