Thursday
You’ll pray out loud in front of a boardroom without blinking — over a meal at a company retreat, at the top of a difficult meeting, in front of clients who half-expect it and half don’t. Praying out loud with your own spouse, just the two of you, in your own bedroom with the lights…
Jordan wrote the email at 11:47pm, three drafts deep, each one sharper than the last. He’d cc’d nobody yet — a habit he’d built years earlier, back when a sent message he couldn’t take back had cost him a relationship with a colleague he never fully repaired. This time, he read the draft once more,…
Camille has run the same three sentences through her head since 4:45 this morning — the vendor contract, the number that still doesn’t reconcile, the call she’s not looking forward to at ten o’clock. She hasn’t solved anything by rehearsing it a dozen times before sunrise. She’s just carried it longer, and more tired, than…
David got the note from his manager in writing: three accounts had slipped, and the tone underneath the bullet points was unmistakably disappointed. His first instinct wasn’t to fix the accounts. It was to disappear from every group thread until the feeling passed, to let a full day go by before responding to anything with…
9:47pm Thursday. Laptop still open. The last productive hour ended at 7. What you are producing now is anxiety in the shape of work. Psalm 127:2 is not scolding. It is the Father telling you what He gives to the beloved while they sleep.
You were not holding the day up. Christ was praying you through it. That is the reality that changes your Thursday.
The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s love from head to heart for Christian professionals A junior person names something real about your fellow executive. You have two seconds to respond — and both instincts are usually wrong. The first instinct: validate. “Yeah, I know what you mean.” That feels like connection. It is triangulation. You have now…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s love from head to heart for Christian professionals You soften the line so the conversation stays warm. The other person leaves still off course. Kindness without clarity is comfort for you, cost for them. Truth lands when love carries it — not when love hides it. CHEW with Me Clarity Name…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals A new venture had an eight-member C-suite, nine months of careful business-plan work with an outside writer, and unanimous sign-off from every leader at the table. Six weeks after the writer finished, the CEO unilaterally changed direction — he thought he saw a…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals His American direct reports kept walking out of his meetings confused — and he kept thinking they should have understood him. A CEO I worked with came from a culture where indirect communication is the norm. He was brilliant: visionary, strategic, the kind…