Get Ready With God

I’m pressing pause on the podcast for now, and I want to be honest about why. I’m in a season where my faith feels hard and I’m choosing it even when I don’t feel it. I’m taking some time to go inward, rebuild my own relationship with God, and trust that the right path forward will come.

I’ve spent a lot of my life trying to control how people perceive me, and I’ve learned how exhausting—and limiting—that can be. In this episode, I’m talking about the freedom that comes from living in alignment with my integrity and letting other people misunderstand me when I can’t control their story.

I’m getting a little salty about the obsession with what “counts.” Whether it’s scripture study, work, or personal goals, I think we’re missing the point when we focus more on checking the box than on whether our effort is actually moving us toward the outcome we want.

I’ve spent a lot of my life trying to control the outcome, but losing my son taught me something I couldn’t ignore: sometimes you can do everything in your power to change what’s coming and still have to let it happen. Inspired by The Odyssey, I’m thinking about the balance between fighting like hell, taking action, trusting God, and eventually getting on the raft and letting yourself be carried home.

I talk a lot about looking for divinity in every day, but I’ve been thinking about what that actually means. I don’t experience big miracles or obvious communication from God very often, and for a long time, that made me wonder if God was even there. In this episode, I talk about why I think miracles can be rare while divinity is everywhere—and why we shouldn’t count ourselves out of God’s story just because our experiences don’t look like the faith-promoting stories we hear from other people.