‘It’s awful. It’s broken. It’s basically hopeless. Practically speaking, a complete mess. Can we ever find a solution? With the way everyone argues? Unlikely. Just hold on.’

This is how it goes, how we start to feel. The further we go the more we learn. The layers of brokenness, of systems that are failing, of lives that are hurting. We argue at which solution is best. If you don’t see it my way, surely you don’t care. Surely you don’t – see or care.

This is how it’s fashioned, a hamster wheel of blame, and we get nowhere. It’s fashioned that way completely on purpose. So we all stay stuck.

The problems, too big.
My thoughts, too troubled.
My actions, way too small.

But friend, you have a power to help change things. Because if you believe in Jesus, He has not left you alone or powerless. He has left you His Holy Spirit. He lives inside you. His power dwells inside you. You just need to trust Him and let it out.
Yes, He doesn’t need perfection. He just needs you, submitted to His solutions. To what He wants to do through you. His is in fact made perfect in weakness. If you’ll let Him.

My son had a precious toy yesterday that he was playing with. Pocket sized, it apparently holds some magical abilities.

Well he was lost for a time yesterday. “I’ll never find him!” He moaned without hope. “He’s lost forever.” We assured him he probably would find him, and we all hoped as we encouraged him, that it would be sooner rather than later!
Well later that night, as we snuggled in to sleep, I put my arm around him and pulled him close. My hand fell upon the pocket of his button down flannel pajama top. There was a lump there. I patted it. And in a second, I knew.
“Look what I found!” I beamed you everyone. “It was THERE ALL ALONG! Resting right over your heart!”
He broke into a slow and easy smile. Out came the dimple. Settled he was, in love. There. it. Was. What he was looking for.

Friend, it’s time for you to smile that kind of smile again, too.

My son’s toy is just that.
—A token, a treasure, as it were. Though it does not actually possess the abilities that it proposes, to see and help you, like much of childlike play, it points to what really does exists. The Divine.

There it is, with you. The Holy Spirit LIVES inside of you? Have you forgotten? We all do sometimes. All of us. Or else the world would look much different. Yet, it still can. We need our generation and the one next coming. To know, and to be reminded.
We are not left alone, hopeless, upon some wasteland. He can turn the barren land into a place of springs, the desolate into a fruitful garden. He can do it for you and for me, and for wherever we live. Even if it feels like a barren place, a Babylon or Babel. Where HE IS is transformed. And He lives inside of you, doesn’t He?

He had not left you alone, and He has not left you either, without a purpose. Knowing His power exists and letting it live through you are not the same. 💛 A limited, controlling, religious spirit (even if it has nothing to do with “religion”) will always tell you there is only one way to do it, too. To do anything. It will accuse. It will push you further along, on a hamster wheel of hopelessness. The Holy Spirit? He won’t. He always knows how to guide.


There are a hundred million ways to make a difference, and if the Holy Spirit is motivating it, you will make a difference.

There are talents that He has given you. Gifts that only YOU have. Differences that YOU ARE meant to make. The world may be big and you may be so very small. But that doesn’t mean anything. Not really, when you have the power of The Holy Spirit living side of you.

It’s time you let it out.