The Narrow Way

Grief taught you how to carry weight.How to smile with a storm in your chest.How to show up with gracewhile dragging invisible chains behind you. And maybe no one saw the heavinessbut heaven did.And Jesus never asked you to carry it forever. Because while grief has its place,it is not your permanent address. Matthew 11:28–30 Read more

You’ve cried tears no one saw.Prayed prayers no one heard.Carried burdens that bent your backand bruised your heart.But heaven was never absent.He was bottling the tears.And preparing the oil. Isaiah 61:3 promises beauty for ashes,joy instead of mourning,and “the oil of gladness instead of a spirit of despair.” This is not shallow happiness.This is not Read more

There was a time you wept through every worship song.Not out of joy, but out of grief.You were present in the room,but your spirit was buried in battle. And nowthe war is over.And you hear a sound rising in your spirit again.Not a sob.Not a sigh.A song. Because deliverance has a soundand often, it looks Read more

You didn’t lose your shine.It got buried under survival.It dulled in the shadow of shame.It dimmed when hope deferred made your heart sick. But let me remind youGod restores what life tried to erase.And what He restores, He doesn’t just returnHe makes radiant. Psalm 34:5 says,“Those who look to Him are radiant; their faces are Read more

The enemy tried to steal your voice.Tried to silence your song.Tried to convince you the future was something to fearnot something to rejoice in. But here you are.Still standing.Still burning.And now, you’re starting to laugh again. Proverbs 31:25 says,“She is clothed with strength and dignity,and she laughs at the days to come.” Not because she Read more

You didn’t lose your joy.It got buried.Buried under pain.Buried under unanswered prayers.Buried under nights too long and tears too many. But joy isn’t dead.It’s just been underground, germinating. Because in the kingdom,mourning is soil.And every tear you’ve cried is seed. Psalm 30:5 says,“Weeping may endure for a night,but joy comes in the morning.” And not Read more