you're always moving forward.

since january, i’ve been writing these weekly blog posts with brief recaps of my day-to-day life. i started doing it because my sister does, and i love seeing photos and hearing details about her life that don’t make it in our text convos.

plus, i wanted to practice writing and posting regularly, and this felt like a pretty low-pressure way to do that.

after seven months, it’s been a mostly fun exercise, except for the weeks when i take no photos, i can’t really remember what i did on a particular day, or there is just nothing profound to say about working eight hours and then running errands, etc.

it’s on the days that aren’t particularly noteworthy (or the days i choose to binge-watch netflix, let’s be honest) that i feel like i’m losing the plot. like, what am i even doing?

but then i remember how stories in the bible skip over a lot of the day-to-day details too. for example, genesis 41 starts with, “two full years later…”

i always want to know, were they good days? were they bad days? was he exercising perfect discipline every day?

but we don’t know. and i think it’s because it doesn’t really matter. in the overarching story, those details — good or bad — don’t change the plot.

the day-to-day details of my life don’t change what god is ultimately doing.

that’s what gets me the most. just because it feels like i’m not making progress — or like i’m losing progress — doesn’t mean that’s what’s actually true.

what’s actually true is that i don’t have as much power or control as i think i do. i don’t make progress on my own, and i can’t lose progress when i’m in his hand. the bible says he takes us from glory to glory.

by his spirit, we are always moving forward.

even if it doesn’t look the way i thought it would. even if it doesn’t seem that way. even on a day that feels like nothing.

the power of god is in you, even on a thursday.