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"Waiting is never wasted when God is in it."

Five days a week, Dr. Lael writes the word she needed on her own hardest days — short enough to read with your coffee, honest enough to sit with all day.

A Place to Land While You're Still Waiting

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While You Wait Wednesday

There’s a kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from doing too much. It comes from relying on the wrong source. Burnout happens when we push and push and push until there’s nothing left. We white-knuckle our way through hard seasons, tell ourselves to be tougher, try to manufacture resilience on our own, and then wonder […]

You Were Never Meant to Force It: Finding Strength That Actually Lasts

While You Wait Wednesday