This picture was from a few days after I birthed our baby Char. (If you look close you’ll see I’m still in my pajamas – my uniform for the last three months of 2019, that was resurrected in 2020🤪.) There are worlds of stories behind each set of eyes here … fears and victories, deep-struggles and remarkable heart wins. But many of you who look at this feed maybe didn’t even know we had this many stories to tend, or that some of the greatest beauty in my world right now rests within these people.
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I suspect you’re not new to navigating the fuzzy line between online life and real life. You’ve read books about it, talked to friends about it. You pray about it. Many thoughtful people are considering their online engagement.
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But in this newfangled world-instability, I wonder if you need the same reminder I do:
it’s not only OK that you invest the majority of your life in the undocumented spheres — behind closed doors, and in places that some people may never see — but it’s a key to thriving in these insane times.
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Could this be one of the many strategies God is giving believers in this time: cultivate your private, unseen life. Don’t just give the nod to it, invest in it. *More.* More than you invest in your public presence, how people see you, what you are saying out-loud and before others’ ears. And more than you invest in reading and researching – imbibing — what’s happening out there. Psalm 51:6 says “in the hidden part, You will make me to know wisdom.”
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What the world – you, your neighbor, your kid – needs most right now is God’s wisdom. We need God.
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But it’s so loud out there, can we even hear Him? For them. . . for ourselves?
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More than ever (can I say that?), we need Who we find when no one is looking, applauding, celebrating, championing.