Why godly work must grow from a godly life. There is a kind of talent that can impress a room and still be unable to carry a calling. I heard that idea years ago from one of my mentors, and I remember feeling uncomfortable. Not because I disagreed with it, but because it exposed something […]
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Loving the Church became easier for me the day I stopped pretending I wasn’t broken. Not dramatically broken. Not headline-level broken. Just human. Fragile. In process. There was a season when I wrote in my journal, “Healing is possible.” I still remember how hopeful those words felt. Not because everything was suddenly fixed, but because
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I still remember walking across my college campus years ago and passing a construction zone. Nothing about it looked finished; the ground was torn up, stakes were scattered through the dirt, and the landscaping was incomplete. It looked like one of those places you walk past without paying much attention because, honestly, construction zones are
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that’s true, this one holds more than I ever planned to tell. I’m choosing to share this reflection on the first anniversary of this picture’s taking, Mother’s Day, 2025. I kept the image in this post on purpose, so when I invite you to look
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After the breaking point I mentioned in my last blog, “You Love Me Pt.1”, I thought the hardest part was over. I had surrendered. I had cried the tears. I had whispered the prayer: “You’re allowing this because You love me.” And that was real. But what I didn’t expect was what came next. The
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Hebrews 12:4–13 carries a hard but beautiful truth: God disciplines His children. For me, this passage came alive at a breaking point, the moment I knew something had to change. The chaos inside me, the cycle I was stuck in, the pain I was causing myself and others… it couldn’t keep going. I needed to
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Lately, I’ve been sitting with a truth that feels both confronting and freeing: people do not always pull away because they do not care. Sometimes they pull away because something feels unclear, unstable, or out of tune. And before I look outward, I have to look inward. From the beginning, Spiritually Tuned has never been
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In my last blog, Skill Without Soul, I wrote about the danger of becoming strong in gifting while staying underdeveloped in the places God cares about most. I wrote about how talent can carry us for a while, how we can look capable, polished, and productive on the outside while something deeper remains unsettled within
For a long time, I thought gifting would carry me. If someone needed me to sing, I could sing. If something new needed to be learned, I could usually learn it. If the opportunity was there, I knew how to rise to it. And without realizing it, I started believing a subtle lie: if the
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Let’s get straight to it: why am I starting this blog? Honestly… procrastination and I have been good friends for a long time. But in that delay, something was happening. God was growing me, healing me, purifying me. I’ve realized that sometimes what we call “issues” or “obstacles” are really just part of His process,
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