Are you sabotaging yourself by trying to prove to those whose approval you want that you are worthy of that approval? All that striving is doing is building walls. When you try too hard to gain approval, acceptance, or justification, most emotionally healthy people do not move toward you, they pull away. Are you willing […]
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Spiritual Readiness Is More Than an Intellectual Exercise
I was invited to an online devotional on Holy Thursday where we were studying Luke 22—the account of the Last Supper and the hours that followed. As I participated in the study, something stood out to me, something I never thought of before and wasn’t discussed in our study What if it was more more […]
Thrive in the Waiting
When Waiting Starts to Wear Us Down Waiting for the fulfilment of God’s promises isn’t easy. I’ve been there more than once. The longer a season stretches out, the more tempting it is to start pulling back. Thoughts begin to creep in. Maybe God forgot. Maybe I didn’t hear Him clearly. Maybe it’s wiser not […]
What We Leave Behind: The Heart Behind Our Words
What Moses Chose to Leave Behind The last words someone speaks often show what mattered most to them. Deuteronomy 33:27–29 records the very last words Moses ever spoke over Israel. After forty years of leading, interceding, correcting, and carrying the weight of a nation, his time was closing and h Or at least, the closing […]
When the Door Won’t Stay Open
Honouring and recognising kairos moments Do you ever feel like you’re moving, but not actually going anywhere? Same conversations. Same obstacles. Same inner tug-of-war. You want change, but something keeps you stuck in a rut. Often, it isn’t laziness or lack of desire. It’s fear. Fear keeps us circling familiar ground. It tells us staying […]
Why the Internet Is Flooded With “Heartwarming” AI Stories
This article was written with the help of AI-assisted research to surface and organise information that is already widely known online. These are long-standing patterns many experienced internet users recognise intuitively. My own understanding comes from continuous involvement on the public internet since 1993. I used AI simply to help clarify and explain my intuitive […]