If productivity is how you prove that you matter; rest will always feel like failure. Truth is you’re valuable even when you don’t feel useful.
Being productive does not always mean those actives are purposeful. What good is a beautiful life if you're too exhausted, too sick or too absent to experience it? Furthermore, financial freedom means very little if you've become a prisoner to the life your financing.
Time is the currency of life, and sovereignty is the freedom to decide how that currency is spent. We must stop measuring the success of our lives solely by what we've accumulated and start examining what its costing us to maintain it.
The price you pay for ignoring red flags is always greater than the cost of cutting ties early. When they show you who they are, BELIEVE THEM THE FIRST TIME
Every worthy goal will require patience & persistence. If the goal is big enough to change your life, it will be heavy enough to test your faith & your resolve.
Loving someone who was never loved well is like lighting a fire with damp wood. You strike the match again and again, and for a long time you get smoke and no flame, because the wood learned to hold onto the rain.
“When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of distress and anxiety. If I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, without pain.” - Rumi
…When I fast & pray now; it’s God help me be sensitive to my blind spots; introduce me to the new voices that I need to be hearing in this season…
Sometimes God pulls you away from the noise so you stop mistaking other peoples opinion for his direction. The applause of others isn’t always affirmation; especially if you’re wearing a mask. God sitting you in sanctified silence is an invitation, not punishment; to know him….