It's in the Quiet Whisper (Shattering Mountains Series)

I've been sitting at my little desk, designing and creating a new journal cover combo, worship music in my ears. It's when I'm sitting and creating something just for the fun of it that we tend to have our conversations. Usually late at night when I'm struggling to sleep.

My mind was just wandering, listening, talking. It wasn't always the most pleasant of discussions - it usually isn't when I'm up this late. It's still good, but it's usually always the harder conversations that He and I have in the night season. This one began earlier, while I was laying down, and someone in one of the coaching groups I'm in sent a little freebie for the group.

Me, who loves freebies and also experimenting whenever new things are presented, I volunteered as tribute to test it out. With a few tweaks and fiddles, I made it work for me, the guinea pig. Because of course I'm going to test something out on myself and then figure out if it's a good fit in this little corner of the world. (Yes, I know I'm being vague.)

A hiker stands triumphantly at the edge of a precipice, overlooking a breathtaking view of mountains, a serene lake, and a distant town below.

Y'all. I was not prepared. I. was. WRECKED. Wiping tears, trying to still see what I was doing, snot forming WRECKED. Things that I hadn't realized were deep down, hiding, popped up. There was a lightbulb moment of me literally saying out loud, "Wait. I had no idea that THAT was the actual thought and mindset behind x,y,z."

At the end of the report was this summary. I don't think it's just for me. I think there's a lot of us out there that need to hear this. May it take you on a deep dive into Shattering Mountains the way it's begun taking me:

"What felt like a constant

failure to overcome was never

proof of your brokenness—it

was proof of how deep the

wound went. It was not

rebellion. It was survival. It was

not laziness. It was exhaustion.

You didn’t keep going around

the same mountain because you

were weak, but because no one

had shown you another way out.

Until now."

-LCA