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Themes

Not blog categories, just the words that keep showing up. A way into the archive by what you're actually walking through, not by date.

  • Drought

    The seasons when the well ran dry and I had to decide whether I still believed the verse this whole site is named after.

    4 writings
  • Rest

    What I've had to learn, slowly and against my instincts, about stopping.

    4 writings
  • The Ordinary

    Faith lived in Tuesdays and board games and buying a house, not just on mountaintops.

    9 writings
  • Cynicism & Criticism

    What it costs to keep a soft heart in a world that keeps giving me reasons to harden it.

    3 writings
  • Promises

    The specific verses I've gone back to when everything else gave way.

    4 writings
  • Church

    What I learned trying to help build one, in a hotel conference room and then a movie theater.

    1 writing
  • After the Dream

    What's left, and what's true, once the plan you built your life around doesn't survive.

    2 writings
  • Psalms

    Prayers I didn't write, borrowed because they said what I couldn't.

    4 writings

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD.”

Jeremiah 17:7, ESV

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

2 Corinthians 13:14, ESV

Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. ESV Text Edition: 2025. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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