Every once in a while—more often than I care to admit—I find myself slipping into a familiar rut. It usually starts quietly. A long week, a few disappointing conversations, a silly argument with a family member, a sermon that doesn’t seem to land the way I hoped, escaping a doom scroll through social media, or simply the tired realization that my to-do list has more unchecked boxes than I expected. And then it comes: that discouraging internal dialogue about what I’m actually accomplishing, the impact I’m truly having on the people around me, and whether my efforts for the Kingdom of God mean as much as I hope they do.
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