08/17/2026
I’ve prayed for courage.
For strength.
For wisdom.
For deeper faith.
And somewhere along the way I realized those prayers don’t always come with peaceful circumstances. Sometimes they come with opportunities to actually practice what I’ve been asking God to build in me.
James wrote about perseverance because faith isn’t only built in the parts of life that feel good. Sometimes the answer to the prayer is the thing that forces you to become the person you prayed to be.
I don’t believe every hard thing is sent by God. But I do believe He can use every single one of them.
Still becoming her.