Tag Archives: balance

Science and Spirituality | Body and Mind: Let the Tide Come In

Most of us were only ever taught to manage things. To perform okay. To say “I’m fine” on autopilot until we actually believed it, or at least stopped questioning it. But the body keeps an honest record of everything our mouths agreed to leave behind…

The psychological and the spiritual aren’t competing systems. Together they create a full circuit, either feeding or starving us. The longest-process things on the list of human emotions aren’t longer because they’re more powerful. They’re longer because someone kept interrupting the process.

Eventually, we have to allow the tide to come in.

Root → Rupture → Rest: What Striving Couldn’t Do | Daily Bread

I had nothing left to offer. No performance. No effort. Just the raw and quiet reality of a woman too tired to try anymore. And that is exactly where God met me. I thought I knew and loved stillness before that moment, but in that stillness, something began to change that all my years of striving and even meditation had never touched. I was not led away from my faith. I was led through the fog of it, until I could see it clearly for the first time.

Sunday Sessions | Mothers

God reaches for motherhood to describe the most tender dimension of His own love toward us. That is not accidental. And yet we live in a time when the nurturing instinct has been systematically taught out of women, traded for hardness and called liberation. What was lost in that exchange is something the world cannot name but feels the absence of everywhere it looks.

The Survival Manual I Almost Overlooked | The Author’s Perspective

I’ve been failing the test lately, with the weight of the world pressing down until it felt like water closing over my head. But God was determined to remind me of the survival manual He left us for times exactly like these. Through a stranger’s words on X, my mother’s “ghost,” and a chain of events that only make sense if He lined every single one up, God showed me how to stop carrying the wrong weight… and how to shift into the one posture that actually changes everything: counting it all joy.

It’s All Nonsense, Except Soul | Daily Bread

The people who are willing to honestly acknowledge when something feels deeply wrong are often the ones closest to real clarity. Not because discomfort or suffering is somehow noble in itself, but because the courage to sit with that unease, to follow the questions all the way down instead of numbing them or pushing them away, is exactly how truth begins to find us.

Sunday Sessions | The Book, the Cocoon, and Learning to Hold Intensity Without the Edge (A Personal Sunday Reckoning)

Yesterday morning – again – I read an argument on X before coffee. We know better, but we don’t always do better. In it, two people certain they were the villain-identifiers of history. Both missed the point entirely. I thought about how Scripture named what I was looking at a long time ago, and, inspired, I closed the app, chuckled, and proceeded to gut and rearrange my entire bedroom. What I built instead reminded of something, and changed something. This is that story.

When Your Faith Shakes | Daily Bread

This is not a polished testimony with a tidy ending. This is what it actually looks like when the shaking is happening — in real time, in a real life, with a real God who is not confused even when I am. I had thought my faith was at the strongest it had ever been. And then the month I’m about to describe happened. This is what I found when I got quiet enough.

Sunday Sessions | Grace

Dr. Frank Turek asked on X yesterday, “how would you describe grace to someone?” I couldn’t help but write I a long-winded reply to that post, because I learned loved grace the hard way, and I feel so humbled when I am reminded of the cost of it. Today’s Sunday Session is how I would describe grace.

Authenticity Unveiled | When Winning Isn’t the Point

What’s the real reason I share anything I share? That question snuck up on me recently — not from someone else, but from myself. The honest answer turned out to matter more than I expected.

This post is about that question, and what it revealed when I started looking around at how faith gets performed online versus how Scripture actually models it. The Bible is full of people who questioned God, fact-checked apostles, wrestled all night, demanded evidence, and were honored for it. Truth doesn’t need a bodyguard. It thrives in the open.

So here’s my invitation: push back. Ask harder. Say “but what about ____?” That’s not a threat to what I believe. Growth is the point. Not winning.

Leaves but No Fruit: When Jesus Calls Out Spiritual Show for What It Is | Daily Bread

In Mark 11, Jesus hungers, spots a leafy fig tree promising fruit, finds it barren, and curses it. It withers from the roots.

This story offers us a prophetic sign: outward religion without inward transformation withers. His call isn’t performance, it’s abiding in the Vine.

Jesus doesn’t just expose fruitless leaves. He invites us back to the Vine. Judgment on pretense is mercy in disguise: it clears space for real growth. Slow, often painful, but alive.

“Abide… let the Spirit prune.”

Where do you need renewal today?

Sunday Sessions | Finding God Under All the Religious Stuff

There is something nobody tells you about deconstruction: sometimes you tear down everything you thought you believed, only to find the thing you were actually looking for was buried underneath all along. This statement will be old news for many. For many, still, it will feel familiar, and as they read on I suspect theyContinueContinue reading “Sunday Sessions | Finding God Under All the Religious Stuff”

Jane Fonda’s Wounds Drive Her Activism. What Drives Yours? | Daily Bread

It has come to my attention that many in the younger generations are confused about Jane Fonda’s recent statements on the Iran strikes. They’re not asking hard questions. They’re following and supporting them blindly. From the crow’s nest, I’d like to sound a warning: that’s a mistake. If you’d like to see things from thatContinueContinue reading “Jane Fonda’s Wounds Drive Her Activism. What Drives Yours? | Daily Bread”

The Psychology of Political Conviction: Why Facts Often Fail to Change Minds

It’s been quite a while since I’ve shared a psychology-related write-up. Recently, I saw a clip of liberal commentary that prompted a realization: even many otherwise balanced, reasonable people don’t fully understand what’s happening in the psyches of those on the radical ends of the political spectrum. And this phenomenon is not confined to oneContinueContinue reading “The Psychology of Political Conviction: Why Facts Often Fail to Change Minds”

When Compromise Becomes Complicity: Why Speaking Truth Is No Longer Optional

I saw a post recently about Susan Rice advocating for reeducation camps for those who haven’t adopted her worldview. Why this approach? Because persuasion has failed. When you can’t convince people through reason or evidence, the next step becomes force. This reveals something crucial about the current moment: we are witnessing the breakdown of sharedContinueContinue reading “When Compromise Becomes Complicity: Why Speaking Truth Is No Longer Optional”

Grief is Praise: The Sacred Work of Loving What We’ve Lost | Daily Bread

We live in a culture that treats grief like a broken bone. It morphs grief into something that needs to be set, healed quickly, and returned to normal function as soon as possible. We’re given timelines for mourning, prescribed stages to move through, and gentle but persistent pressure to “find closure” and “move on.” ButContinueContinue reading “Grief is Praise: The Sacred Work of Loving What We’ve Lost | Daily Bread”

We Don’t Stop Caring, We Stop Carrying

There comes a point in life when you realize that love and attachment are not the same thing. When we grow apart from those we used to think we couldn’t live without, those who we were merely attached to without depth or reciprocation, we don’t stop caring; we stop carrying. That’s what real forgiveness andContinueContinue reading “We Don’t Stop Caring, We Stop Carrying”