devotions - faith for every season

You may have already caught on to something about me... I’m a big Justin Bieber fan. You can roll your eyes, it’s fine. I know, I know. But hear me out. What’s always fascinated me about Justin Bieber isn’t the fame, the success, or the fact that he seemingly “has it all.” It’s the reality that even someone at the top—money, influence, platform, everything—still wrestled with the same question so many of us do, what is my purpose? So much so that he released an entire album c

Are you a creature of habit? The kind who orders the same coffee every time. Takes the same route to work. Has a “right” way to load the dishwasher and gets annoyed when someone does it wrong. (Just me?) There’s comfort in routine. Familiarity feels safe. Predictable feels manageable. But sometimes, without realizing it, routine turns into autopilot. Jesus says in John 15:11 , “I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!”

Some days work feels less like a calling and more like a to-do list that never ends. The kind where you sit down with good intentions… and somehow three hours disappear into emails, tabs you don’t remember opening, and a growing pile of things you still haven’t done. The kind of day where nothing big happens, but you’re somehow exhausted anyway. And if I’m honest, I’ve had days where I rush through my work just trying to get to the end of it. Counting hours. Watching the cl

It’s wild how quickly comparison sneaks in. One scroll, one update, one “oh wow, good for them” and suddenly you’re questioning your timeline, your progress, and whether you somehow missed a memo everyone else got. We can be perfectly content one minute… and completely discouraged the next—just by watching someone else run past us. We don’t always realize how exhausting it is to constantly measure ourselves against others. Their milestones. Their success. Their pace. Their hi