I have a confession. For a long time, I read Romans 12:2 like it was a motivational poster. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Nice thought. A renewed mind. Moving on. It wasn’t until I hit a season where my thinking was genuinely working against me, that this verse came back to mind. […]
I used to think freedom would feel a certain way. Lighter, maybe. Quieter. Like the moment you finally put down a heavy bag you’d been carrying too long. But when I started asking God what it actually meant to walk in freedom, His answer surprised me. It wasn’t about feeling less afraid. It was about […]
I am a natural prioritizer. I often act first and deal with seeking answers later. Give me a list and I will rank it. Give me competing demands and I’ll build a framework for navigating them. Give me a complicated season with too many moving parts and I’ll find some sort of a system for […]
I have a bad habit of waiting for significance to announce itself. Now, don’t get me wrong. I don’t sit down at the beginning of a day thinking I’ll only pay attention to the remarkable things. It’s more reflexive than that. More like a background filter that’s always running, quietly sorting moments into the ones […]
I wrote my way through one of the most depleting seasons of my life on sheer momentum and very little else. Fullness wasn’t even remotely on my radar. The deadlines didn’t move because my energy did. The responsibilities didn’t pause because my reserves were low. The people who needed me kept needing me, as people […]
There’s a perception making too many people believe that suffering is a sign you’re doing something wrong. That fullness in life looks like things working out. That abundance means the hard parts don’t last long or hurt too deeply. And then life happens. The diagnosis comes. The relationship doesn’t restore. The provision doesn’t arrive in […]
I had a very specific picture in my head of what a full life would look like. Of when I’d know I was living in abundance. I’m not sure exactly when I formed it. Probably somewhere in the middle of expectations, plans, and quiet assumptions that build up over years without you really noticing. But […]
I once had a therapist tell me something about healing that I didn’t fully appreciate until about three years after she said it. She said: “The story you’re telling yourself about what happened may be the thing that needs healing more than what actually happened.” I nodded politely in the moment, filed it somewhere in […]
I am not a private processor by nature. When something breaks in me, in a relationship, or in a season of life, my first instinct is to talk it out with others. But after years of facing betrayal from several in a community I thought I could trust and being judged for who I naturally […]
Some wounds are clean. A loss that was no one’s fault. A disappointment that came from circumstances rather than choices. A hard season that arrived without a person attached to it. Those wounds still hurt, and they still require real healing. But there’s a certain straightforwardness to them. You know what happened. You know what […]
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