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A job will never fill us. It can certainly mask the feelings of emptiness we might feel. Busy work can distract us from loneliness, but a job will never provide for all of our needs. It fills our bank account and perhaps our ego but there is more to life, a lot more to life than those two things. When we face the hard parts of life that are inevitable, a job, a career, a side hustle isn’t going to walk us through the valleys of darkness.

It didn’t take long for fear to set in, though. Each month I’d feel fear well up in me as I paid bills and crunched numbers. And month after month, God was faithful in our finances. They were stretched and covered our needs time and again. I would do my best to turn back to love, to trust in the process, and to know I was following God’s plan for our family at that time.

Why would we walk away and search for love in other places?

I felt I had let down my marriage vows, kids, family, friends, and church. I wanted to hide in my shame. I wanted to disappear into the darkness after that service

we’ve finished our rest of the Sabbath

In all my busy and running, I couldn’t hear whispering. I couldn’t slow down long enough to enter the thinness of the spiritual that I desperately wanted. And even in my wanting to simplify my life, I knew what some of that might mean. When I would get quiet enough, I knew there were significant problems needing fixing. If I stayed busy enough, I could lie to myself that I had fixed them. I hadn’t. I knew I hadn’t. What I didn’t let myself realize or slow down enough to get was this: it wasn’t mine to fix.

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