Daily Seek His Face for the Grace Needed in this Online Space

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Daily Seek His Face for the Grace Needed in this Online Space

Playing the social media game is not my thing, and yet, ironically, here I am, posting this for you, because maybe you’re feeling the tension, too.

I’m wired for real life, face to face conversations. I want to connect with others heart to heart. I’d rather talk, listen, respond, and react in real time, not in the comments section, not with an emoji, not scripted or edited.

Anyway, that’s been my hesitation in this space these days. I’m a pretty social person, so social media should be pretty easy, right?

Well, not for me. Reels are fun to make and encouragement is easy to give, but real life isn’t always fun and the encouragement I give isn’t always consistent with the life I live.

Somedays I feel like posting. Other days I feel like I should post, but really have nothing to say. And then there are days I just feel done, tapped out, and ready to log off.

But more than posting daily on social media, I want to daily stand at my post and wait on the Lord. I want to hear from Him first so I can interact with others best.

More than engaging with others online behind a screen, I want to engage with the King of kings through the pages of His Word as I approach His throne of grace and glean His perfect wisdom and truth.

Wisdom that will guide, supplement, and grant me daily doses of encouragement that are applicable for real life with real people that will produce real change, growth, and maturity.

Truth that sets me free to daily pursue all that He wants me to do. Truth that compels me to seek and trust the very source of life before going to other resources that often leave me dry.

So, while I’m showing up in this space today, this is your (and my) reminder that as we seek His face, He shows up for us with grace every day — grace greater than all our sin, grace that gives us access to all wisdom and truth made perfect in Him, grace for not only this space, but all the others we’ll face today, and every day forward.

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Content Creator < being content with your Creator

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Content Creator &lt; being content with your Creator

Being a content creator is less important than being content with your Creator.

I’m not saying creating content or being a social media influencer is wrong, evil, or even unnecessary, but I am saying that there are many online creators and influencers that are more concerned with their following than with their followers. They play the game, put numbers before names, and seek internet fame.

I believe our deepest need is to belong to something, to someone — to have purpose beyond ourselves — to do life with others and for others — to make our lives matter more than merely living out and counting our days, but living them out well and making them count.

Which I know is the impetus behind creating content. I know this very post is proof of that!

So, how do we balance it all?

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Stuck in Silence: What to do with Spiritual Paralysis & Spiritual Laryngitis

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Stuck in Silence: What to do with Spiritual Paralysis &amp; Spiritual Laryngitis

I have felt a bit confused lately about “my voice” in this really noisy and rather nauseating online world.


Chapter 2 of my Bible study, “CALLED,” was all about spiritual paralysis. Lately, however, I feel like I’ve had spiritual laryngitis. My heart is so full of things I’m learning and ways God is pouring into me, and yet I can’t seem to find words to communicate it all.


I guess in the writing world it’s called “writer’s block,” but this is more than a mental block — it’s an angst with what I’m holding, or rather what I’m beholding. What I’m seeing and experiencing in a world I hardly recognize is adding compounded weight to the burden I feel — It’s a burden so heavy, mere words can’t hold it. Only God can hold it. It was His Son, Jesus, His Living Word that told of it.


“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” ~ John‬ ‭16:33‬


So instead of sharing a lot of my empty words with you, I’ve been doing a whole lot of praying, crying out to him, allowing my heart to bleed freely before His throne of grace, trusting Him with these burdens as I seek His face, trusting His sovereignty in this confusing online space.


Spiritual paralysis can keep us stuck and spiritual laryngitis can keep us silent, but God has a way of moving in our hearts as he moves us closer to His heart. It’s in that experiential knowing God by experiencing His presence that we can be moved to action — free from spiritual paralysis and laryngitis to take steps and share words that will further His Kingdom.


“And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for “‘In him we LIVE and MOVE and HAVE our BEING’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’” ~ Acts‬ ‭17:26-28‬


“Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.” ~ Romans‬ ‭8:26‬

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Disconnect to Reconnect. Unplug to Plug In.

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Disconnect to Reconnect. Unplug to Plug In.

Social media.

The bane of my online existence.

Just because I’m writing about it today doesn’t mean I’m digging it most days.

In fact, there are days, more often than not, that I just want to be an in person person.

I don’t have the time or energy to scroll and play the game, and yet I know, in this day and age, it is a big part of connection with others. Lately, however, God has been emphasizing the “part“ of “part of.”

Thus the reason, my online presence may be a bit absent some days.

And guess what, that’s OK! You know why?

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