Relationship with God
Closeness to God in a heavy season depends less on how much time you can find and more on where you stay. Say you are a managing partner three weeks from a deal closing, and the thirty-minute morning plan you built in a calmer month lasted nine days. It now feels like a plan from…
A household remembers what it can see, so God told Israel to stack stones where their children would ask about them. Picture your kitchen counter on a Saturday morning: a calendar, a stack of mail, a few school forms, a coffee mug. Everything the week demands is visible, and nothing there yet records what God…
Some truths about God’s love reach your heart faster as a melody than in a paragraph. Picture your drive to work: a hymn you almost skipped is playing, and for the first time all week a line about God’s love does not just make sense, it lands. Nothing about the commute changed, only the way…
Morning prayer is not a request dropped into silence; it is a request laid out before a Father who is already listening. Have you ever caught yourself running the day’s list through your head on the drive in and calling it prayer? The list is accurate and the words are sincere, yet it can sound…
Maybe you memorized a verse months ago, but haven’t thought about it since. However, the Bible is described as living and active; the verses you memorized don’t need to wait for a special occasion. Pull out what you know and use it – today. C.H.E.W. with Me New here? What is CHEW? — a 30-second practice that…
Nobody clapped when you answered that one email carefully instead of firing back what you actually felt. No one saw you choose patience with the barista, or when you took the extra two minutes to actually read the memo instead of skimming it. You noticed, though — that it didn’t seem to matter to anyone.…
A short email goes out sharper than it needed to be. You know it the second you hit send. By 2 PM you’ve forgotten the exact words but you’re still carrying a low, formless guilt you can’t quite locate anymore — the kind that colors your tone in the next three meetings without your ever…
You checked your phone one more time before turning off the light. Nothing was actually happening — no fire to put out, no message you were genuinely waiting on. You checked it anyway, because some part of you doesn’t fully believe things keep running smoothly if you stop watching them for eight hours. That belief…
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…
You’ve said the words “I’m still praying about it” more than once this year — in a meeting, in a text to a business partner, in a conversation with your board. Some of those times it was true prayer, wrestled through honestly before God. Other times, if you’re willing to admit it, it was a…