4187 Love the In-Between
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Have you ever paused in front of a mirror and thought, almost? Almost healed. Almost confident. Almost the woman you know you're meant to be — but not quite there yet. That pause, that space between where you were and where you're going, can feel like the loneliest place in the world. But what if that's actually one of the most sacred places where you need to love the in-between? Because most of us have been taught — by the world, by our own expectations, sometimes even by voices inside the church or community or your job or your family — that we earn the right to love who we see only...
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4186 Lead with Your Gifts
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There is something inside of you that the world needs. Not the version of you that has been shaped and polished by degrees, training programs, and years of professional experience — though those things matter. But it runs deeper. Before you ever sat in a classroom or clocked into your first job, God planted something in you that was never meant to collect dust; lead with your gifts. Too many of us have spent years building lives around what we've learned while quietly setting aside what we've been given. We show up to work with our skill sets. We volunteer with our expertise. We check the...
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4185 And That's A Wrap!
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You cross the finish line. You hit the milestone. You reach that thing you've been praying over, grinding toward, and believing God for — and you exhale. And that's a wrap. Or is it? When you accomplish a goal or finally touch a long-held dream, do you stop? Do you sit down, dust off your hands, and call it done? Or does something inside you whisper, "There's more?" It's very interesting how we see life. The moments can feel like a year, when it might have been only a day. But nothing worth having comes in a moment. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join...
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4184 Come and See
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There are seasons in life when the darkness feels closer than it should. When the weight of what you're walking through presses in from every side and you start to wonder if the light you once felt so sure of is still there. Maybe it's grief. Maybe it's uncertainty. Maybe it's a weariness that has settled so deeply into your bones that you can't remember what rest feels like. Wherever you are right now, whatever shadow has crept into the edges of your story, do something simple and holy — come and see. Come and see that the light has not gone out. Desire to be supported and encouraged by...
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4183 Don't Let the Calendar Replace the Connection
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You married your best friend. You chose each other. And somewhere along the way, the life you're building together started pulling you apart — not because the love faded, but because everything else got louder. You're not fighting. You're not even frustrated with each other most days. You're just missing each other; sitting in the same house but living in different rhythms. And that quiet distance? It didn't happen because of one bad day. It happened one full week at a time. So when life crowds in on your marriage, don't let the calendar replace the connection. However, the biggest threat to...
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4182 Listening Is Love
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It's not that unheard of to want to explain everything to your children. We carry decades of life behind us, and we think if we can just say the right thing at the right time, we can spare them the pain. But regardless of their age and stage of life, what they need is your presence. Not your lecture. Not your five-point plan. Your presence; listening is love. You don't have to have all the answers. You don't have to be the problem-solver every single time. What they need from you is ears to hear. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the . ...
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4181 The Heat Is On
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There are moments in life when everything feels like it's pressing in — the deadlines, the demands, the weight of expectations, and the relentless pace that never seems to slow down. And right in the middle of all of it, you realize something: the heat is on. Not just the kind that comes from outside pressure, but the kind that rises from within, the fire that tells you it's time to move, to grow, to step into the fullness of who you are and who you are created to be. No matter what happens in your day, at some point you have to be willing to go the extra mile, play full out, and do whatever...
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4180 The Soil No One Talks About
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People will tell you about the blooming, the breakthrough, and the moment they finally stepped into the calling God placed on their life, where everything clicks because He has been planning it all along. But nobody really talks about the soil no one talks about — the stuff underneath the surface that made the bloom possible in the first place. The seasons that felt more like a burial than planting. The prayers that seemed to bounce off the ceiling. The plans you laid out in good faith that God, in His gentle sovereignty, folded up and tucked away. And if you've been in one of those...
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4179 Set the Pace for Your Daily Race
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Have you ever watched a tennis match and noticed the winner isn't always the one hitting the hardest? Sometimes it's the one who knows when to slow down, when to push forward, and when to reset between points. With the US Open in full swing right now, there's no better time to be reminded that the way we approach our daily lives mirrors what's happening on those courts in Flushing Meadows. It's time to set the pace for your daily race — not someone else's, not the world's, but the one God specifically designed for you. Tennis is a game of rhythm. Every elite player has a routine between...
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4178 Laboring For What Lasts
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There's something beautifully ironic about Labor Day. It's the one day of the year when we're told to stop laboring — to set down the to-do list, fire up the grill, and just breathe. But as the burgers sizzle and the kids splash in the last pool days of summer, a quiet question has a way of surfacing: What am I really working for? Today, as we celebrate the gift of rest, let's talk about Laboring for What Lasts — and why the answer to that question shapes everything. Jesus said it plainly in Matthew 6:21 (NIV): "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Desire to be...
info_outlineNo farmer has ever watched a seed disappear into the ground and known — truly known — what would come back up. They trust it. They have reason to trust it, built from experience and season and the testimony of every harvest that came before. But trust is not the same as certainty. The farmer plants anyway. The seed goes into dark soil. And then comes the hardest part of any growing season: the waiting. Plant what you can't see.
That is where most of us live right now. Not at the spark. Not yet at the bloom. Somewhere in the middle — hands still dirty from the planting, eyes scanning the ground for any sign that something is actually happening beneath the surface.
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This is not a detour from the story. This is the story.
They Planted What They Could Not See
In the summer of 1787, the founders gathered again — this time not to declare independence, but to build something that would outlast them. The Constitution they drafted would govern a nation they would never fully see. The freedoms they framed would be exercised by generations not yet born. The "more perfect union" they envisioned was, by their own admission, still becoming.
George Washington, who presided over that Constitutional Convention and understood perhaps better than anyone what they were actually doing, reflected on the weight of what they were planting:
"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people."
An experiment. He called it an experiment. Not a guarantee. Not a finished product. A seed in the ground, entrusted to hands that hadn't been born yet — to your hands, and mine.
That is an extraordinary act of faith. They planted what they could not see. And 250 years later, we are still living inside the harvest of their courage.
You Are Always Planting for Someone Else
Here is the part of planting that doesn't get talked about enough: most of what we sow, we will not be the ones to harvest.
The tree you plant today will give shade to someone who hasn't been born yet. The faithfulness you practice in private will shape the character of your children in ways you won't fully see for decades. The kindness you extend without applause, the integrity you hold onto when no one is watching, the prayers you pray into what feels like an empty ceiling — all of it is going somewhere, taking root in soil you may never stand on again.
Scripture has always understood this. One of the most quietly radical verses in the Old Testament appears in the book of Jeremiah, when God addresses a people living in exile — displaced, discouraged, far from everything familiar. His instruction to them is startling in its ordinariness:
"Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce... seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare." (Jeremiah 29:5, 7)
Plant gardens. In exile. In the hard season. In the place that doesn't yet feel like home.
Not because the harvest is guaranteed. Not because you can see the outcome. But because planting is an act of hope, and hope is an act of resistance against despair.
The K.I.S.S. ~ Plant what you can't see!
The Courage of the Unfinished
There is a particular kind of courage required to begin something you won't finish.
It's easier, in a way, to start something you can complete quickly — a project with a clear end date, a goal with a visible finish line, a risk where the outcome will be known by morning. That kind of courage is real, but it's bounded. You can see both ends of it.
The harder courage is the long kind. The kind that keeps showing up to something that will take years. The kind that plants in a season of drought and trusts that the rain will come. The kind that hands something unfinished to the next generation and says, here — carry this further than I could.
Paul described the endurance of faith this way in his letter to the Galatians:
"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." (Galatians 6:9)
If we do not give up. That phrase is doing a lot of work. It acknowledges that giving up is a real option — that the in-between is long enough and hard enough that quitting is always on the table. And it calls us forward anyway. Not because the harvest is visible yet, but because the planting itself is an act of faithfulness.
What Are You Planting?
Two hundred fifty years ago, a group of imperfect, visionary, deeply human people planted something in the ground that would take generations to grow. They did it without seeing the outcome. They did it in the middle of a war. They did it knowing they were betting their lives on the possibility of something that had never existed before.
You don't have to change the course of a nation to matter. You just have to plant what's in your hands today — faithfully, hopefully, without demanding to see the harvest before you've done the work.
The seed you bury today might be a conversation you finally have. A commitment you quietly renew. A dream you stop waiting for permission to pursue. A child you keep showing up for, even in the seasons when it's thankless. A prayer you keep praying, even when the sky feels silent.
Plant it anyway.
You are not just living your own story. You are planting into the lives of people who will come after you — people who will one day stand in the shade of something you started, without even knowing your name.
That is not a small thing.
That is, in fact, everything.
"One generation commends your works to another; they tell of your mighty acts." (Psalm 145:4)
Plant what you can't yet see. Trust the soil. Keep showing up.
The harvest has a way of coming exactly when it was always meant to.
"Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!"
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