Category: Personal Reflection

For Such a Time as This

June 4, 2025 0

There are days I move through the world wondering if I’m really where I’m supposed to be. Not doubting God, exactly—but struggling to see Him clearly. I don’t always hear His voice. I don’t always feel His hand. And sometimes, I walk forward simply because there’s no peace in standing still. Recently, I returned to…

By John Rains

Letting Go Isn’t Giving Up

June 3, 2025 1

There’s a line I crossed this week—not out of anger, but out of clarity. I stepped away from someone I deeply care about. Someone I’ve tried to help. Someone I’ve loved enough to hurt for. She’s in self-destruction mode. Every time something good rises in her life, she tears it down before it can take…

By John Rains

The Pain of Letting Go

June 2, 2025 0

For the One Who Sees Her Choose the Life That’s Breaking Her She lives in the ache.It’s familiar there. Predictable. Numb. She has wrapped herself in a lifestyle that promises control—but delivers chaos.She doesn’t ask for help—only favors.She doesn’t want closeness—only comfort on her terms.She doesn’t let anyone in too far—because too far means too…

By John Rains

The Fixer Who Can’t Fix Her

June 1, 2025 0

(A Companion to “The Change She Knows She Needs”) He sees it.The heaviness in her eyes. The restlessness. The pain she doesn’t talk about.Something inside her is hurting, stuck, lost—and he wants to fix it. Because that’s what he does.That’s what he’s good at. Fix the broken thing.Patch the leak.Solve the problem. But she’s not…

By John Rains

The Change She Knows She Needs

May 31, 2025 Off

She doesn’t need anyone to tell her her life is a mess.She already knows. She feels it in the quiet moments, when the noise dies down and she’s left alone with herself. She feels it in her body, in the stress that never leaves, in the regret that follows every decision that promised comfort but…

By John Rains