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 […]
There was a stretch of time when anxiety was just my baseline. I didn’t even recognize it as anxiety anymore. It had become so woven into my daily rhythm that I thought it was just how life felt. Alert, braced, waiting for the next thing to go sideways. Maybe you know that feeling. The low […]
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 tendency to treat independence as a goal. But this habit didn’t develop as a result of pride. Instead, it came from learning early that needing people came with risks. That connection often came with the possibility of being hurt. If you could handle things yourself, you couldn’t be let down by someone […]
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 […]
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 […]
I have a prayer I’ve been praying for years. Not decades, but long enough that there have been seasons where I’ve approached it with fresh faith and seasons where I’ve just gone through the motions. Long enough that I’ve had the quiet, uncomfortable thought more than once: What if this particular thing just isn’t going […]
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