When the Journey Is Longer Than You Expected
A bar-tailed godwit's remarkable flight offers a reflection on job loss, long wilderness seasons, and trusting God for strength one day at a time.
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How Do I Live Faithfully When the Life I Trusted Starts Falling Apart?
Job loss did not just cost me income. It revealed what I was really leaning on. A raw reflection on faith, identity, and finding God present in the middle of the story.
Read more →Breakthrough
Why I Wrote Breakthrough
I did not write this to sound strong. I wrote it because I got tired of living in almost, and I needed faith to interrupt the pattern.
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What Breaking the Cycle of Almost Really Means
When almost is not a season, it is a system. A clean look at how hesitation becomes a lifestyle and how faith interrupts the loop.
Read more →Faith & Uncertainty
What Do You Do When God Doesn't Explain Himself?
There's a kind of pain that has very little to do with the size of what you lost. A person can absorb a great deal when the reason for it is available.
Read more →Prayer
When the Thing You Prayed For Still Doesn't Happen
Most of us learn to pray in generalities, and there's a reason generalities feel safer. A prayer for God's will to be done can't be disproven by Thursday afternoon.
Read more →Rest & Resilience
You Can Be Grateful and Still Be Tired
Somebody asks how you're doing. You might be standing in a church lobby, or on a phone call with a friend from small group, or across a table from a person who genuinely wants to know.
Read more →Rebuilding
What If Starting Over Isn't Starting From Nothing?
Starting over is one of those phrases that sounds like encouragement and lands like a sentence. People say it kindly, usually while trying to help, and the picture it puts in your head is a blank page, an empty account, a number reset to zero.
Read more →Discernment
The Difference Between Waiting and Being Stuck
Waiting on God is one of the most faithful sentences a Christian can say and one of the most convenient. I've used it both ways, occasionally in the same week, and I can't always tell in the moment which one I'm doing.
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