Monday
You’ve told yourself you’re being faithful. Disciplined. Called to this. It’s 11:40 p.m., the deck is still open on your laptop, your spouse went to bed an hour ago, and somewhere underneath all that discipline is a feeling that has nothing to do with faithfulness at all. It’s fear of what happens if you stop.…
Most of us have memorized the second half of the fourth commandment and quietly ignored the first. Ask a room full of Christian executives to finish the sentence “remember the Sabbath day” and nearly everyone gets there. Ask them where their own workweek actually ends — what the edge of it looks like, what doesn’t…
Last night your spouse started a sentence about something hard, and you were already assembling a solution before they reached the period. It’s not that the fix you had in mind was wrong. It’s that nobody asked for it yet — and the reflex to supply it anyway is one you’ve spent years training at…
Tom had rehearsed the opening line of Monday’s 8am huddle three times in the parking lot before he ever walked in. He’d chosen his words carefully — calm, direct, no hedging. But by the time he sat down at the head of the table, his ops team had already read the whole meeting off his…
Daniel prides himself on never leaving anyone waiting on an answer. Someone asks, he answers — in the hallway, on the call, in the thread — same minute, every time, and it’s become part of how people describe him: decisive, sharp, never a bottleneck. What he’s never quite noticed is how many of those fast…
Priya stood in the elevator at 7:40 AM, the fourth floor of her own building, running through the funding update she’d give her board in twenty minutes. The doors opened, then closed again — someone else’s floor — and in that extra thirty seconds of stillness, calendar-brain took over completely. Sixteen more meetings sat stacked…
Not a task-management ritual. A five-minute weekly review that starts with Psalm 90:12 and asks God to number the days you already spent. It changes the shape of Monday because it changes the size of you inside the week.
Whatever you receive in the first fifteen minutes at your desk is what will be running through your day. Choose carefully.
The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s love from head to heart for Christian professionals You booked the trip to escape work. By day three, the version of you that needed escaping is on the beach with you. The restlessness follows. The checking of email. The quiet anxiety that nothing is moving forward while you are sitting still.…
The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love From Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Your reactions are decisions. Not the ones in the meeting. The ones in the two minutes after it. The Slack reply on the elevator. The yes in the hallway. The email fired off before the next door opens. You do not have a…