Devotional Message There is a particular loneliness that only shows up on a Sunday morning. You sit in the pew or the folding chair or the seat you’ve chosen a…

Devotional Message There is a particular kind of tiredness that doesn’t go away when the week finally ends. You close the laptop. You answer the last message. You walk into…

Devotional Message There is a particular ache that surfaces on a Thursday evening, when the week is almost over and you cannot quite account for where it went. You remember…

Devotional Message There is a particular loneliness that settles in when the person you love most still doesn’t understand you. It isn’t the loneliness of being alone. It’s the loneliness…

Devotional Message There is a particular kind of tiredness that doesn’t come from doing too much — it comes from being leaned on too long. It is the exhaustion of…

Devotional Message There is a particular kind of silence that settles into a prayer life when you have been asking for the same thing for a long time. It isn’t…

Devotional Message There is a particular kind of loneliness that lives inside a Sunday morning. You get up, you choose the clothes that make you look like someone who has…

Devotional Message There is a particular heaviness that settles in on Sunday evening, a weight that arrives somewhere between the late-afternoon light and the first thought of tomorrow. You may…

Devotional Message There is a particular kind of loneliness that arrives at the end of a Friday. It isn’t loud. It doesn’t announce itself. It settles in slowly, somewhere between…

Devotional Message There is a particular kind of grief that doesn’t come with a goodbye. It arrives slowly, in the spaces between texts that used to come daily, in the…