I have a friend who knows me well enough to tell me hard things. The relationship we’ve built over years of showing up for each other has created a kind of trust where we feel safe with honesty and not threatened in any way. There’s a gentle encouragement that leads to action when either of […]
At the beginning of this month about God’s favor, I asked myself two questions that I wasn’t entirely sure I knew how to answer. How do I steward what God entrusts? And what does obedience in relationship look like? I’ve been sitting with both of those questions for the past several weeks. Through the writing, […]
I am, by nature, a somewhat task-oriented person. I like lists. I like progress. I like the satisfaction of moving something from the undone column to the done column and knowing exactly where I stand. But lists don’t work so well when stewarding relationships. People don’t work like lists. They’re beautifully, sometimes exhaustingly, unpredictable. And […]
I had a picture in my mind of what God’s abundance would look like when it arrived. Margin in my schedule. Breathing room in the budget. A season where the demands slowed down enough that I could finally feel like I was getting ahead rather than just keeping up. I waited for that season for […]
There are times when you say, “Yes” and pay an immediate price before you ever see what it produces. I said one of those yeses a few years back. It meant setting aside a project I loved, one into which I had invested significant time and energy. But by walking in obedience, I sensed clearly […]
A few years ago someone told me I was a good encourager. Not a writer, not a speaker. An encourager. Honestly, my first reaction was to brush it off. It didn’t feel like a gift in the way I understood gifts. And it certainly didn’t feel like something that would fall under my stewardship of […]
I grew up hearing the word obedience in contexts that made it feel heavy. Do this. Don’t do that. Follow the rules or face the consequences. But that’s not obedient faith. And for a long time, even after I came to faith, that don’t-question-obedience followed me into my relationship with God. I obeyed because I […]
For a long time, I believed that God’s favor was something you earned. Not theologically, of course. I knew better than that. But the way I approached my work and my days held an undercurrent that said if I just did enough, showed up enough, produced enough, then maybe things would go smoothly. Maybe doors […]
I’ll be honest. When I first heard the word abundance, my brain went straight to more. More margin, more resources, more time, more of whatever felt scarce in that particular season. And I spent a fair amount of energy quietly wishing life looked a little fuller than it did. Then one ordinary afternoon I was […]
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