Star for the Journey

presence

  • The Possession Trap

    We buy ourselves timewith newer clocks—sleeker screens, faster gears,promises wrapped in upgrades. They swear they will free our hours,hand us peace in smaller packages,give us room to breathe again. But the hours we saveare quickly spentearning what we now must keep. Overtime becomes ordinary.Evenings grow thin.Conversations shorten.Love waits while receipts pile up. We trade worn…

  • Unchased

    There are roomswhere your shadow arrivesbut your name does not—light knocking softlyon uninterested walls. One day,something in you remembersyou were not madeto haunt thresholds,apologizing for existing. You turn,and in the quiet behind youwalks a Presencethat has always known your weight in stars—and suddenly it’s clear: it was never youthat was lacking,only the roomtoo smallto hold…

  • Where Gratitude Breathes

    Gratitude beginswhere language dissolves—in the pale hushbetween thought and prayer,where something tendermoves without footsteps. It is not an emotion,not a discipline—more like a veil of quietdrawn over the soulby hands we cannot see. Sometimes it arrivesas a soft tilt of the heart,like a compass needleturning toward a Presencethat has no outlineyet fills the room. It…

  • The Way Out Is Not Where You Think

    There are days when the mind feels like a locked roomwith no windows—just echoes,shadows,and the long, dull hum of thoughtsthat refuse to grow quiet. You reach for joy,but it slips like water through clenched fingers.You reach for strength,but the cupboard of your soul sits emptied,its shelves coated with the dust of unanswered prayers. Depression calls…

  • When Words Fall Short

    Scripture Focus: Job 2:13“So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.” Have you ever watched someone you care about walk through a kind of pain you cannot fix? You can’t unsay the cruel…

  • The Goodness in the Waiting

    (Inspired by Lamentations 3:25 “The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.”) The Lord is good—so whispers grace,To those who seek His hidden face.Not rushed by time, nor swayed by fear,His presence waits, so calm, so near. The world demands a hurried pace,Yet blessings bloom in patient…