There was a Tulip Poplar tree in my backyard that I pretty much ignored for two years. But growth happened anyway. I didn’t plant it intentionally. It showed up in the corner of the yard the way most plants do. Uninvited, unplanned, easy to overlook. At first, the small sprout didn’t bother me. Just a […]
I didn’t expect the year I asked God to grow me to be one of the hardest years I can remember. Looking back, I’m not sure what I thought would happen. Maybe a quiet deepening. A gentle stretching. Some new insight arriving on a Tuesday morning with my coffee, leaving me wiser and largely undisturbed. […]
I have a friend who can quote movie lines the way some people quote Scripture. Her habits are genuinely impressive! It doesn’t matter the genre, the decade, the obscurity level. She has it. We’ll be mid-conversation about something completely unrelated, and suddenly she’s delivering a line from a film I barely remember seeing, perfectly timed, […]
There is a particular kind of discouragement that occurs when growth doesn’t look dramatic from the outside. You take the time to focus on improvement in some way, but the outward evidence isn’t showing yet. It’s not a crisis. It’s not a loss. It’s just the quiet suspicion that nothing is actually moving. You’ve been […]
You know, we usually don’t notice ourselves being formed or shaped until something pressures us. That’s when we realize something isn’t letting us grow. It’s not the big dramatic moments that shape us most consistently. It’s the steady accumulation of our moment to moment choices and actions. What we open first in the morning. What […]
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