The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals
You are sitting at your home office desk early on a Monday morning, coffee in hand, and the same email is at the top of your inbox that has been at the top of your inbox for six days. You open it. You read the first three lines. You feel that low tightening in your chest. You close it. You tell yourself you will get to it tomorrow when you have more bandwidth. Every senior professional knows this email — the one from a client, a parent, a colleague, a friend whose question deserves a careful answer and whose patience is quietly running out. The work it would take to reply is not actually that much. The cost of not replying is already greater than the work. What you are avoiding is not the email. It is whatever the email is going to require of you to say honestly. And every day that passes, trust is quietly thinning while you tell yourself you will get to it. Saturday’s anchor named the line between working from trust and working from dread. The unanswered email is where that line lives this Monday morning.
Clarity
The reason you have not replied is not bandwidth. It is that the honest answer feels exposing, and avoidance has started to feel safer than the conversation.
Hear
**”Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.”** — Ephesians 4:25, ESV. God does not build trust through delay. Scripture reveals that truth is what connects you to the people Christ has joined to your life — even the truth that is uncomfortable to put in writing. The Holy Spirit reshapes leaders who choose to speak honestly, even when the conversation costs something. Trust that God’s love is fierce enough to carry the reply you have been postponing.
Exchange
If I really believed God’s love is steady enough to carry both me and the person on the other side of this email, how would that change the way I sit down to reply this morning?
Walk
Open the email right now. Set a 12-minute timer. Write the honest reply — three sentences if that is what is true, not the perfect draft you have been waiting to compose. Send it. If this is the only thing I do from this CHEW today, it is enough.
If this is closer to what you are quietly living and you want to talk through what is underneath the email — reach out. Email me at [email protected] or call 404-421-8120. I read every email myself.
With you on the journey,
Ryan
If you had to put this into one sentence for today, what would you say God is inviting you to rest in or return to?
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