A few years ago I said yes to something that terrified me. It wasn’t skydiving or anything outwardly dramatic, although I did go bungee jumping…once. No, this was agreeing to step into a role I felt completely unqualified for, in a space where I was certain people would eventually figure out I didn’t belong there. […]
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 spent a long time looking for fullness in the wrong places. These places didn’t seem wrong when you first looked at them. Think respectable. Productive. Places that made sense on paper and looked reasonable from the outside. Filled with achievement. The next goal, the next season, the next version of things that would finally […]
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 […]
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 […]
There have been seasons of my life when I had genuinely good things. Real gifts, real blessings, real evidence of God’s faithfulness all around me. Yet, I still didn’t feel full. And I felt like something was missing. I wasn’t exactly ungrateful or unaware of how much I had. Just quietly, persistently aware of a […]
The most abundant season of my life didn’t look like it from the outside. There was a stretch of a few years that, by most external measurements, would not have made anyone’s highlight reel. And it certainly didn’t resemble fullness as others see it. Resources were tight. Circumstances were uncertain. Several things I had been […]
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 […]
Some people understand focus as a discipline of the mind. A practice. Something you work on in the quiet, controlled moments of your day. And then life happens. And focus becomes an act of survival, of stubborn faith, of choosing to keep your eyes fixed when everything around you is falling apart. I want to […]
We often assume trust will eventually produce clarity. If we wait long enough, pray hard enough, and obey consistently enough, surely the full explanation will come. But sometimes it doesn’t. And that can be unsettling. Learning to Live Without the Full Picture Years ago, I stepped out of a ministry leadership role in which I […]
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