The Feed

You can have empathy. You can pray. You can love. You can offer help. You can even walk beside someone through a difficult season. But there comes a point where you have to ask: “How can my faith and willingness to keep going be stronger than the faith and willingness of the person actually living through it?” That does not mean you stop loving them. It means you recognize that you cannot surrender to God for someone who refuses to surrender for themselves. You cannot do thei

There was a time when my life felt like a never-ending cycle. Cry. Care. Conviction. Repeat. I would love people deeply. I would care for them, pray for them, give to them, encourage them, and do everything I knew to do. Then I would cry over them. I would carry their burdens as if they were mine. I would grieve for their choices, for their pain, and for the lost places in their hearts. Some were family by blood. Others became family because I opened my heart and made room fo