The Freedom in Enough
There's always more you could be doing. More you could be learning. More you could be achieving. The world will never stop telling you that what you have is not enough, that who you are is not enough, that you need to keep reaching for more. But what if you're already enough? "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." (2 Corinthians 12:9, NIV) I struggle with this. With the feeling that I should be doing more, being more, accomplishing more. But this verse keeps pulling me back to the truth that God's power...
When the Answer Is Wait
You've been praying. You've been asking. You've been believing that God hears you and that He will answer. And still, nothing has changed. The door has not opened. The clarity has not come. The answer is still wait. And waiting feels like nothing. "Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord." (Psalm 27:14, NIV) I wish I could tell you that waiting gets easier. That there's a trick to it or a way to make it feel less heavy. But what I've learned is that waiting is just hard. And sometimes the only thing...
The Practice of Staying
There's a kind of faithfulness that doesn't look like progress. It looks like staying. Staying in the hard conversation. Staying in the season that feels too long. Staying when everything in you wants to run or quit or start over somewhere else. Staying is its own kind of obedience. "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." (Galatians 6:9, NIV) I don't know what you're being asked to stay in right now. I don't know if it's a relationship, a season, a calling, or...
Tending What You've Been Given
There's a difference between striving for more and tending what you already have. Striving looks outward, always reaching. Tending looks down, at what is already in your hands, and asks, "How do I care for this well?" I think God asks us to tend what He has given us. Not to do everything. Just to tend what is ours. "Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much." (Luke 16:10, NIV) The life you have right now, the people in your home, the work in front of you, the ordinary rhythms of your days, this is...
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