Spiritual Journey Blog

If your mind wanders during prayer, using one Bible verse, a prompt, and a creative activity could help you find meaning in your wandering thoughts. Give your wandering mind somewhere productive to land.

We live in a world that constantly tells us abundance is something we have to chase, catch, and frantically hoard. We are trained to measure our worth by the speed of our schedules, the size of our bank accounts, or the pristine appearance of our homes. If you’ve got a "noisy brain" like mine—one that races like a squirrel with human tendencies—the constant cultural hum of "more, faster, better" can quickly run you straight into the ground.

Most people don’t struggle to believe God exists. They struggle to notice Him. Not in the big moments—but in the ordinary ones. In the in-between parts of life that feel like nothing is happening at all.

One of the hardest things to untangle in spiritual life is that our feelings don’t always tell us the truth about reality. Feeling distant from God can come from different places. But the cause is not always the absence of God. Often it is the noise around us that drowns out awareness.

Scripture is full of moments where people almost missed God because they were waiting for something bigger. In 1 Kings 19:11–12, Elijah expected God in the wind, the earthquake, and the fire. But God wasn’t in any of them. He was in the whisper. That detail has always felt uncomfortable. Not because it’s unclear—but because it requires attention. A whisper forces you to lean in. And most of us are not leaning in—we are scanning for signs.

There is a quiet struggle that many people of faith never say out loud. We want to feel God. We want to hear Him clearly. We want confirmation that He is near. But most days feel ordinary. No burning bushes. No loud voice from heaven. No unmistakable signs. And so we begin to wonder…“Is God even speaking to me?”

We often expect God to show up in dramatic, unmistakable ways. But more often, He speaks in the quiet, ordinary, and easily overlooked moments of our daily lives. This cluster of articles is about learning to notice Him again.