In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.

Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?

A lack of doxology leads to depravity.

Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.

There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.

The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.