Our world tells us to move on, level up, escape, or reinvent ourselves as God whispers something far less dramatic: Stay. Stay when it would be easier to leave.Stay when the fruit hasn’t appeared yet.Stay when obedience feels ordinary and unseen. Stay is not stagnation.Stay is abiding. Jesus says in John 15, “Abide in me, and I in you.” AbidingContinue reading “Word of the Year 2026: Stay”
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A Writer’s Prayer
Gracious Heavenly Father,Thank You for the gift of words, of memory, and of story. I lift my work to You, asking that You guide my heart and mind as I consider sharing it. Not everything written needs to be shared just like not every thought needs to be spoken. Help me discern where, when, andContinue reading “A Writer’s Prayer”
Friend: Advent Isn’t Over—We’re Still Waiting
Christmas comes and goes, but waiting remains. We celebrate that Christ has come but we also confess that all is not yet made new. The light has dawned as shadows still linger. This is the tension of our Christian hope in our 21st-century, post-pandemic, age of AI, Trumpian America. Advent teaches us how to liveContinue reading “Friend: Advent Isn’t Over—We’re Still Waiting”
