The art of releasing begins the moment we stop gripping what is already gone. Losing access to a place can feel like losing everything, but a void will not stay empty. Releasing with grace and gratitude makes room for something as wonderful or even better. This is not passive surrender. It is active trust.
Tag Archives: presence
The Author’s Perspective | On Mortality: Witness
Have you ever watched someone pass away? I don’t mean “heard about it later.” Not “gotten the call.” Not “arrived after the fact to sit with the body already still.” I mean actually watched.
Have you been present, sitting there as a body fails in real time? Have you watched the chest rise and fall, then rise less, then not rise at all?
Because I have. And I’ve reached a place in the understanding of my own grief where I genuinely don’t care how uncomfortable it makes people to hear about it. Why? Because it’s coming for all of us… and if you don’t really look at that, you are not actually living.
The Author’s Perspective | Before You Transition, Do These Things
Before you transition, stop existing and start living. Tell the people you love that you love them. Watch a sunrise without rushing. Forgive yourself for being human. Fall deeply in love with something. Learn how to let go. Be still. Leave people better than you found them. One day none of us will care about the numbers. We will only care whether we truly lived while we had the chance.
The Art of Noticing || When The Struggle Becomes the Teacher
Choosing peace is choosing alignment with God instead of the need to be right. Through one of the hardest and realest friendships of my life, I learned that struggle and pain become our greatest teachers when we are willing to sit with them long enough to learn.
The Art of Noticing || Where God Still Speaks
The art of noticing begins in the sky, the way light still reaches for the edges of a storm, but the deeper work turns inward. It is the quiet attention we give to how our body responds before the mind even names what it feels. That is discernment. That is depth. That is where God still speaks when we finally put the distractions down.
Presence, Not Passage: The Hours We Don’t See | Daily Bread
Everyone I know has said it at least once this year: “Where is the time going?” But I’ve been sitting with a different question lately. Not “where is the time going,” but “when did we stop paying attention to it?” Because I don’t think time is actually disappearing. I think we are.
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.
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.
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 Retardation of Reason
For months, I’ve been struggling with diagnostic fatigue when it comes to this blog. I realized long ago that I speak from upstream of a culture that has deliberately moved downstream and dammed itself there. Only recently did it fully land that this does not render the work pointless. It simply means the audience wasContinueContinue reading “The Retardation of Reason”
Authenticity Unveiled | A Continuing Discussion on Discernment: On Dependency, Communion, and Channeling
There’s a specific kind of fog that settles in when people lose their spiritual grounding but still want to sound enlightened. It gets thicker in comment sections, especially under videos like the one I recently saw of Eckhart Tolle. In the video, he’s talking about the difference between channeling and communion. And while his toneContinueContinue reading “Authenticity Unveiled | A Continuing Discussion on Discernment: On Dependency, Communion, and Channeling”
Sunday Sessions | The Love We Notice While It’s Here
Writing this post feels like déjà vu—like I’ve written it before. Maybe I have. But it hit me again this morning, and I’m sharing it anyway. We can never have too many reminders to notice what we’re grateful for, to hold it close before it’s gone. Every morning, my mother-in-law texts me. Just a simpleContinueContinue reading “Sunday Sessions | The Love We Notice While It’s Here”
Authenticity Unveiled | Beyond the Surface: The Truth About Your Spiritual Presence
In the 3D reality we inhabit, image is everything. From social media profiles to first impressions, people go to great lengths to curate how they are perceived. But while appearances can be manipulated, your energy—the essence of who you are—is something that cannot be faked. It is your spiritual face card, and in both the physical andContinueContinue reading “Authenticity Unveiled | Beyond the Surface: The Truth About Your Spiritual Presence”