You Are Too Wonderful to Shrink for Uncertainty.
Recently, I was talking with one of my best friends about faith and the quiet pressure people sometimes feel to adjust themselves in order to fit someone else’s expectations. We were reflecting on how easy it can be to slowly reshape parts of who we are so that we feel more acceptable to the people around us. Sometimes the pressure to shrink does not come loudly. It rarely announces itself. More often it appears quietly, in small hesitations. In moments where we feel the subt
Mar 253 min read
Don’t let your wounds steer you.
Sometimes when we talk about Jesus, we speak about Him as if He is distant from the pain we experience. We pray to Him, sing about His love, and read about His promises, yet when life wounds us, it can still feel like we are carrying those wounds alone. Pain has a way of isolating us. It convinces us that our hurt is unique and that no one could fully understand what it feels like to carry it. Maybe someone you trusted betrayed you, a relationship broke your heart, or words s
Mar 163 min read
What Never Fills
I was talking with my sister the other day about how subtly sin trains us. Not all at once. Not in loud rebellion. Slowly, step by step. We were reflecting on how sin conditions people over time to place their own desires above everything else. Above wisdom. Above relationships. Above truth. Even above God. It rarely begins with outright defiance. It begins quietly. A small justification. A moment where what I want feels more important than what is right. In the middle of tha
Mar 42 min read
Less of Me, More of Him
I was talking to a friend recently and something was shared that truly stayed with me. It was said that a podcast host had mentioned that as he grows in his faith, he prays he would “disappear” more and more; so that when God looks at him, and when other people look at him, they don’t really see him… they see Jesus. There was something deeply moving about the humility in that prayer. Not a desire to be unnoticed or insignificant, but a sincere longing for Christ to be so evi
Feb 183 min read
