Daily Grace
One passage. One idea. A few quiet minutes. Short devotional readings for people being formed by grace, written from a small chair beside still water in Falcon, Colorado.
Pull one up. Read slowly. There is no hurry here.
Fear Is Honest
Not in a general way. Right now. This week. The thing that shows up at two in the morning when the house is quiet and your brain will not stop.
"What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee." (Psalm 56:3)
What are you afraid of right now? Not in a general way. Right now, this week, the thing that shows up at two in the morning when the house is quiet and the mind will not stop. For some it is a marriage, not an explosion but a drift, two people in the same house feeling a hundred miles apart and neither of them saying so. For some it is a child walking toward something they cannot be stopped from reaching. For some it is money, and they know exactly what is in the account, and it is not enough. For some it is a diagnosis, theirs or someone they love, and the ground moved and has not settled since. And for some it does not even have a name; it is just a weight, a hum, a tiredness that sleep does not fix.
None of this is said from above anyone. It is the common air of being human, and the pastor breathes it too. But here is the thing worth turning over. Fear is more honest than we give it credit for. Fear shows you what you have been leaning on. It is not merely an affliction to be silenced; it is information about the foundation. So before you rush to make the fear go quiet, let it finish its sentence. It is about to tell you, more truthfully than you would ever tell yourself, where you have actually been resting the weight of your life.