Nobody Is Coming To Save You. And Nobody Should Have To

Who exactly did you think was coming?   A mentor who discovers you. A partner who fixes the finances. A boss who finally sees it. Some external event that rearranges everything so you do not have to make a hard decision yourself.   None of it is coming, and here is the part that should […]

God Is Waiting For You To Go First.

You have been waiting on God while he has been waiting on you.   You are asking him to bless something you have not started. Asking for provision for a thing that does not exist. Asking him to open a door you have never walked up to and knocked on. And he is standing there […]

You Are Addicted To The Idea Of Yourself And Allergic To The Work.

You love being someone who is going to write a book. You love the way it sounds when you say it, the notebook you bought, the way people’s faces change when you tell them what you are working on.   What you do not love is sitting down and writing badly for two hours on […]

He Already Sent The Ingredients. Stop Praying For The Cake.

You keep asking God for an answer he already gave you.   You are praying for clarity, for a sign, for confirmation. And meanwhile the answer has been sitting in your lap for two years while you keep asking him to send it again in a format that requires nothing from you.   It is […]

Your potential is getting tired of your excuses.

Hello There, Your potential is getting tired of your excuses.   Not your lack of time. Not your kids. Not your job. Not the algorithm. Not the fact that you “don’t know where to start.”   Your excuses.   You have a story. You have something you know. You have something you survived. You have […]

Grief Is Not Weakness. It Is Love With Nowhere To Go.

Hello There, Grief does not just show up at funerals.   It shows up when your child grows up and the little version of him is gone forever, even while you love the man he is becoming. It shows up when a friendship changes shape, when a dream shifts into something you did not picture, […]

You Keep Saying You Want It. Your Calendar Says Otherwise.

Pull up your calendar right now. Not what you meant to do this week. What you actually did.I promise you the thing you say you want most is nowhere on it. Not blocked out. Not protected. It got the leftover twenty minutes if it got anything at all, squeezed in after everyone else’s priorities took […]