stay curious.

What does faith look like on a Thursday?

I think about this question a lot. It’s why I send emails on Thursdays. To be honest, I send a new email every week (unless of course I take a spontaneous break for the summer) because I’m still trying to figure it out. I’m still finding new ways to answer that question.

The truth is, things are always changing. God is constant, but He’s always doing something new. Which means that things in my life are always shifting, sometimes ever so slightly, and I am always having to learn (and relearn) to shift with it.

But it doesn’t always feel like that. What’s in front of me today often looks similar to what I’ve seen before, and that's where I get stuck. I have a hard time seeing how today could be new or different or exciting. And that’s when I come back to this question.

What does faith look like today? What should it look like? Why do I feel like I could run laps on a Sunday but I’m army-crawling into the weekend on a Thursday?

My default tendency is to look for a template. A formula. A “right” way to do things. As if all the factors, including myself, stay the same. But even if nothing else seems to change, I’m new. I’ve lived a little more, and learned a little more. Ever so slightly, perhaps. But I’m different. Even from yesterday.

Maybe the secret to having faith on a Thursday is staying curious about what that means.

Maybe it’s less about maintaining big hope or seeing big miracles in the everyday and more about believing that God is transforming us – little by little, from glory to glory – every day.

Maybe all the factors of your day, of your life, are the same as they’ve been, but what if you’re different?

The power of God is in you, even on a Thursday.