Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in the darkness.

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.

Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.

Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.