transition
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The Schedule Underneath
You turn the heat up before bed and wake to a cold house, because the thermostat was only holding your change until its stored schedule returned. Intentions can work the same way, sincere and always postponed. In Haggai, a people home from exile kept saying the time had not yet come, and the prophet asked… Read more
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He Kept Moving the Prophet
When the whole picture refuses to support a verdict, people often search for an angle that will. Balak moved Balaam from overlook to overlook, but every new perspective gave the blessing more language. Read more
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Between Worlds: Borrowed Confidence
For most of my life, I walked into every new room asking the same question: What do I have to offer here? One ordinary Tuesday, while working on a flyer, I realized I hadn’t asked that question in weeks. To understand why, I had to go back to a conversation that started with a horse. Read more
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Two Different Prayers
I kept telling God I wanted to move forward, not realizing I’d already decided what forward had to look like. This week’s Birdie Bite is about Paul’s thorn, a boxer’s brittle hands, and the quiet realization that God may be moving us forward in ways we never expected. Read more
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Between Worlds: The Cost of Later
Sometimes survival mode doesn’t look dramatic. Sometimes it looks responsible. Accommodating. Quiet. Functional. You wake up one day and realize you spent years maintaining a life before ever asking whether it felt true to you. I think a lot of people are carrying the delayed cost of that. Read more
