I broke my wrist once and didn’t know it for three days. I was convinced it was just a bad sprain, so I wrapped it, adjusted my grip on things, started using my other hand for tasks that required any real pressure, and told myself it would probably renew itself and feel better by the […]
Nobody told me I was allowed to stop. I come from a long line of people who push through without stopping to renew. It’s not a bad inheritance, honestly. There’s real grit in my family tree. People who showed up when showing up was hard, who kept their commitments even when the cost was high, […]
I kept a journal from my early twenties that I reread a few years ago. It was my way of measuring how well I’d been growing in my faith, in my spiritual walk, in life. I’m not sure what I was expecting. Maybe some nostalgic warmth, a few cringe-worthy fashion references, the general amusement of […]
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 […]
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 […]
We’ve covered a lot of ground this month, exploring the truths at the foundation of focus. We talked about distraction and the way it slips in quietly to scatter your peace before you even realize it’s happening. We talked about comparison, and how someone else’s highlight reel can silently rewrite the story you’re telling yourself […]
Here’s a question worth pondering for a moment: When you think about success, real success, whose definition are you using? It’s easy to say God’s. It’s harder to live with that kind of focus like you mean it. Because the world has a very specific picture of what success looks like, and it shows up […]
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 […]
There’s a particular kind of hard that doesn’t get discussed enough when it comes to focus. It’s not the “hard” of a crisis, loss, or dramatic setback. It’s the hard of showing up, doing the work, staying faithful, and seeing absolutely nothing change. You’re doing everything right. Praying. Moving. Being obedient. And yet, from where […]
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