I wish I could say I stepped away from my assignment because I needed rest. The truth is… I stepped away because I was hurting. I didn’t wake up one day and decide to ignore what God asked of me. I just got tired of carrying pain and purpose at the same time. And I didn't even realize that somewhere along the way, I was living in survival instead of obedience. Sometimes I find it hard to function when my heart feels so heavy. I smiled when I really just need to cry, I served

I used to think Christlikeness meant perfection... getting everything right, reacting without failure, never circling back to the same struggle twice. But that idea slowly starts to collapse under real life. Because real life keeps exposing what’s still unfinished in me. Now I see it differently. Christlikeness isn’t the absence of failure but it’s what I do in the middle of it. It's the honesty that doesn’t hide when I miss the mark. It's freeing when you can realize Jesus n

You want to know what the greatest love story of all time is? A parent loving me so much that he sacrificed his love for me. A parent who, no matter what I do, his love is still so sweet, genuine, gentle, tender and unconditional. A parent who knows my past but has never held it against me. When I’ve disappointed him, he had and has every right to say vile things to me, to judge me, to disown me, but his love is too perfect for that. That when I curse him, when I’m angry with