A RETURN TO WORDS

If you’ve been feeling like a failure…if you’ve been feeling like you’re disappointing everyone, including yourself…when life in and of itself has been feeling heavy, laced with weariness and discouragement recently…remember that there is One who never disappoints. One who never fails. One who is the restorer of faith and hope. One whose yoke is easy and burden is light. His name is Jesus.

Have we created a beast that can’t be tamed? I wonder this sometimes. A world run by social media, news, entertainment and interconnectedness has been set in motion and likely will never be undone. It can’t be tamed. And it has changed the tone for an entire culture and modified the trajectory of history for generations to come.

Rebellions aren’t usually good. But I think you’ll agree that this one is. Consider this my formal revolt against hustle culture. About rise and grind. About living in fight or flight mode.

This is for the quiet ones. The shy ones, the introverts. Maybe you have often felt like you’re on the outside. Maybe you have felt pressured to morph to [what feels like] a very extroverted world. Maybe you see the ones on center stage filled with charisma and commanding attention — and think that is success. Maybe you feel you’ll never make much of a difference in this loud world as a quiet soul.

“When I put me first, everything else will fall into place.” … I was scrolling through Pinterest the other day when I saw these words splayed on a graphic. I see content like this often but for some reason these specific words have stuck with me in the days since. I keep mulling them over and feeling a deep sense of grief that this is the mentality a lot of people subscribe to for purpose and direction in life.