What if your greatest spiritual breakthrough emerged from your exhaustion?

Illusions feel as real as the truth. Often, we are so familiar with them that we forget what the truth even looks like, or if we ever knew it at all.

The “try harder” way always comes back to control. Every push, plan, or promise we make is a quiet way of saying: If I do this right, I’ll be enough, I’ll be loved, I’ll be spiritual, I’ll be safe.

We leave church with the same message each week: try harder, do better, be more disciplined.