The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals
If you know me, you know moving is in my top three hates. This week I am downsizing my office — the one I have worked from for seven years. My team is virtual now. Less than ten percent of clients come in person. But I will always keep an office so my wife does not have to tiptoe around the house and keep the dog quiet. This room carries weight. I have celebrated with clients here and I have cried buckets with them. Leaving it is not simple.
But here is what I am learning: before I ever chose to move, something strange happened. While doom scrolling one evening, I started binge-watching tiny home compilations. Four full videos. My wife and I would never live in one — but I found them fascinating. Then I started wondering whether I could get into the building two doors down at 2295 Parklake Drive. I saw a smaller office and instantly knew God had been preparing me. I got excited — genuinely excited. I started researching furniture. I wanted a fresh start. The practice has shifted to bespoke. We are so focused on God’s love and how it heals, grows, and gives strategic clarity — and we have seen clients move faster in their process than ever before. The new space has a common waiting area steps from my door. It costs a third of what I was paying. I started praising and thanking God because what I thought was a complete waste of time was actually part of the preparation He used to move me forward.
Let me be clear — I am not a proponent of doom scrolling. I am actively curbing that. But God folds even our folly, our mistakes, and our sins into the good He is determined to accomplish in us.
Clarity
Where has God been preparing me for something I did not see coming — and what “waste of time” might actually be part of His groundwork?
Hear
“And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28, ESV). God does not waste your detours. Scripture reveals that He weaves even your folly into His sovereign plan — not because the folly was good, but because His purposes are that relentless. God reshapes the raw material of your real life into something that serves His call on you.
Exchange
If I really believed God’s love is resourceful enough to fold even my wasted hours and wrong turns into His preparation for what is next, how would that change the way I hold this season of transition?
Walk (30–90 seconds)
Take 60 seconds right now. Name one transition you are facing — a move, a shift in your work, a season ending. Then name one unexpected thing that happened recently that you dismissed as meaningless. Ask God: Father, were You preparing me through that? Show me what You are building. If this is the only thing I do from this CHEW today, it is enough.
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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