influence

  • Kept in the Middle of It

    There are days when I catch myself wishing Jesus had prayed a different prayer for His followers. Something like, “Father, pull them out as soon as it gets hard,” or, “Build a safe little bubble around them where nothing ugly can touch them.” Instead, on the night before the cross, He said this: “I pray…

  • Dust Where Mercy Writes

    There are dayswhen the heart feels like a househalf-remembered—doors open,windows shuttered,light falling in placesI have not dusted in years. Something moves inside—not loud enough to name,just enough to rearrangethe shadows. I once thought peace was stillness,but stillness can be the quietof broken potteryleft where it fell.Peace is something else—a slow gathering of fragments,a palm cupped…

  • The Mind Stayed on God: Walking with Him Through Anxiety and Depression

    Some nights the mind feels like a storm you can’t turn off. You lie there in the dark, and everything is quiet except your thoughts. They race in circles, rehearse old conversations, predict disasters that haven’t happened, magnify aches you can’t quite name. The body is tired, but the heart is restless. Maybe you know…

  • Let Love Speak

    Your voice can heal, your voice can break,It shapes the world with each word you make;It lifts the weary, or fans the flame,It builds with love, or it speaks in shame. God’s voice still calls in the quiet today,Not just in thunder, but gentle display;A whisper of mercy, a nudge to forgive,A call to speak…

  • Nehemiah

    Man of Action

  • Andrew: The Quiet Strength of a Willing Heart

    A Disciple of Quiet Influence