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 […]
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 […]
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 moved nine times before I turned fourteen. New schools, new neighborhoods, new everything. Over and over again. For a long time after we stopped moving, I tried hard to find freedom from the past and the struggles of figuring out who I was. I thought those constant fresh starts were just disruptions. But they […]
I remember the first time I realized I was making a major life decision based almost entirely on fear. I had dressed it up quite nicely too, giving it all sorts of different looks and disguising the truth. I called it caution, called it wisdom, called it waiting for more clarity. But when I got […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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