devotions - faith for every season

If abiding were on a checklist, I’d probably try to check it off in under three minutes. Pray. Read a verse. Sip a Dr. Pepper Zero Sugar. Feel holy. Move on. Except that’s not really abiding—that’s multitasking with a Bible open. Some days I wake up already tired. Not because I didn’t sleep—but because my mind is already running. The to-do list. The worries. The pressure to be productive. The feeling that if I don’t keep moving, something will fall apart. I’m really good at d

Some days it feels easier to keep your head down and mind your business. To stay quiet. To scroll past. To say, “that’s not my problem,” and keep moving. Especially when life already feels full. When you’re tired. When you don’t have the energy to care about one more thing or one more person. We're all guilty of seeing a need and immediately thinking about how inconvenient it would be to help. Sometimes I tell myself someone else will step in. Or that I don’t have enough time

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