There’s a moment in spring when you walk outside and something has shifted overnight. Growing happens whether or not you’re paying attention, but it’s best if you take an intentional moment to pay attention. You can’t point to the exact day it happened. The trees didn’t announce it. The ground didn’t send a notification. But […]
I have in recent years become a bit more of a solitary grower. Other than a few rants out loud, I’ve mostly processed things internally. Maybe it’s spiritual growth, but lately, I’ve believed the deepest growth happens in private. In the quiet, in the pages of a journal, in the space between me and God […]
I once spent six months getting really good at something that wasn’t helping me with my growth at all. It was a system I’d built for managing my writing projects. Color-coded, cross-referenced, beautifully organized across three different apps that all talked to each other in ways that made me proud of what I’d accomplished. I […]
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 […]
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