I met a woman at the airport. She sat beside me…she looked hesitant. I stopped the work I was doing as she asked a few quick questions about her flight. Just a simple conversation between strangers. I answered, then went back to my laptop, caught up in work that had my attention. At some point, she slipped away without me noticing. When I finally closed my laptop, I realized she had left her cup behind. I glanced around for her, wanting to let her know she had left it. I lo

Somewhere along the way, many of us learned to make God’s will for our life sound heavy. We speak about surrender to God’s will as though God is waiting to take something from us. We talk about purpose as if there is one correct assignment hidden somewhere in the world and our job is to figure it out before we waste our lives. I have wondered plenty of times, Am I doing what I am supposed to be doing? But lately I have been wondering something different. What if God’s will fo

We tend to fall back in the pack. We retreat. We put in half the work. We return half the calls. Then the whisper starts: "You didn't do enough." Which quickly becomes: "You aren't enough." And just like that, we're in the cycle. Tired. Weary. Disconnected. Trying to earn our way back to "enough." But what if... We remembered that the God who created us also created us to rest? He didn't design us to run from sun-up to sun-down without pause. No solitude. No breath. No time t

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving." — Colossians 3:23–24 Sometimes I just get tired. Tired from pouring out. Tired from holding space. Tired from showing up and wondering…what exactly is all of this for? I heard a sermon today that shifted something in me. It was rooted in that scripture from above

I love nature. Watching it in action, the little movements, the subtle instincts. It doesn't worry about tomorrow tomorrow takes care of itself. It doesn't fret over yesterday’s shelter or what it will wear tomorrow. Nature stays with what is. These birds, trusting the ground beneath them, embracing the food that’s provided right here, right now. They seem to know that all is well… or if not well, then just as it should be. No fighting. No resisting. I caught a glimpse of thi