A gentle reflection on releasing the exhaustion that was never ours to carry. Inspired by a timely alignment between an affirmation app and Ephesians 6:11, this post shares how I learned to stop engaging with constant emotional drains and step into real peace through surrender and boundaries.
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Look Again | What the Full Moon Is Actually Telling You
A column about the June 30th Strawberry Moon crossed my path this week. Good observations, real questions — wrapped in astrological language that most Christians will scroll right past. I want to gently say: look again. Because underneath the framework is something that requires no astrological belief to receive. There is real science here. There is ancient wisdom here. And there is, if you have eyes to see it, the fingerprint of a God who designed all of this on purpose, long before anyone gave it a label.
The Freedom Series | Bound No More: How Bondage Shows Up in Us
Here they are:
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Bondage doesn’t stay hidden in the abstract. It incarnates — finding a home in the specific texture of how we think, what we say, what we do, and how we relate to one another. It leaks out in ways we can barely see in ourselves, even when others see it clearly. In Part Four of Bound No More, we trace the recognizable shapes bondage takes when it moves from theology into biography.
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.
Random Reflections: The Tug-of-War Between Past and Future
This post is a “random reflection” inspired by a quote I came across tonight while preparing for meditation: The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere. (Xun Zi) This quote struck me deeply because it perfectly captures the inner conflict we create when we try to move forward while clinging toContinueContinue reading “Random Reflections: The Tug-of-War Between Past and Future”