Peace in Real Time
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Peace is not always a quiet room, a clear mind, or a perfect day.
Sometimes peace is choosing not to spiral when something feels uncertain.
Sometimes peace is taking your hand off the urge to control the outcome.
Sometimes peace is letting your body unclench without needing a reason.
Grace in the Middle reminds us that peace is not a destination you arrive at once. It is something you practice in real time, while life is still lifing.
Peace can look like:
pausing before you respond
closing the laptop when you have done enough
letting silence be an answer
releasing the need to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you
giving yourself permission to be in process
If you are carrying both gratitude and heaviness this week, you are not confused. You are layered. Healing is layered too.
So today, try this: take one deep breath. Name what you feel without judging it.
Then ask yourself, “What would be kind to me right now?”
Start there.
Peace does not require perfection. It requires presence. And grace will meet you in that place.
In that same spirit, I am grateful to share the launch of the A Time for Prayer (ATFP) Virtual Prayer Corner. It is a new space to pause, breathe, and be covered in prayer no matter where you are. If you need a moment to reset your heart and refocus your faith, I hope you will join us.
And if you are looking for a safe, grace-filled space to process and breathe, visit Precious Hope Healing and Support at www.ph2s.org to learn more about our healing group sessions.
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A Gentle Ending to 2025
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The last day of the year can feel like a doorway. Some people walk through it excited, some people walk through it exhausted, and some people walk through it carrying both gratitude and grief.
If you are in that middle place, I want you to hear this clearly: you do not have to force a fresh start.
You can end the year honestly.
Maybe peace for you today looks like releasing the need to explain everything. Maybe it looks like letting go of the timeline you thought you would meet. Maybe it looks like forgiving yourself for what you did not have the capacity to do.
Peace does not require perfection. It does not demand that your emotions are neatly organized. It simply invites you to stop fighting yourself.
Before you step into the new year, try this:
Name what you are carrying
Be grateful for what you survived
Release what you cannot control
Choose one gentle thing you will honor in your healing
Grace meets you here, not after you “get it together,” but right in the middle of your real life.
If you are seeking a safe, peace-filled place to breathe, reflect, and process, visit Precious Hope Healing and Support at www.ph2s.org to learn more about our healing group sessions.
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Simply Peace
Soft, calming image representing simply peace and grace in the middle of life’s uncertainty
Peace is something many of us are quietly searching for, especially when life feels full, loud, or unsettled. We look for it in rest, in resolution, in moments when everything finally makes sense. Yet peace often arrives in a much simpler way. Not when the noise disappears, but when we stop fighting the moment we are in.
Grace in the Middle reminds us that peace does not require perfection. It does not wait for healing to be complete or circumstances to be ideal. Peace meets us in the middle of unanswered questions, tender places, and days that feel heavier than expected.
There are seasons when your heart knows gratitude and grief at the same time. When joy feels real, yet fragile. When you are moving forward, but still carrying pieces of what was. Simply peace allows space for all of that. It does not demand that you rush your healing or minimize what you feel. It invites you to be present, honest, and gentle with yourself.
Peace becomes possible when we release the pressure to have it all figured out. When we loosen our grip on control and choose trust instead. Sometimes peace is a deep breath. Sometimes it is setting a boundary. Sometimes it is letting today be enough.
Simply peace is not passive. It is an intentional choice to meet yourself with grace. To rest your mind. To soften your shoulders. To remind your spirit that you are held, even here.
As you move through this week, consider where peace might already be available to you. Not later. Not when everything settles. Right now. In the middle of your becoming. May you experience simply peace.
If you are seeking a safe, peace-filled place to breathe, reflect, and process, visit Precious Hope Healing and Support at www.ph2s.org to learn more about our healing group sessions.
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Finding Peace When Life is Full
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There are times when life becomes so full that we long for even a small moment of ease. We look for something to help quiet the noise, steady our emotions, or remind us that we are still grounded. Many of us try to create peace by organizing our days, managing every detail, or holding ourselves together long enough to feel calm again. But peace is not something we manufacture. It is something that meets us, often quietly, even when nothing around us has changed.
As we enter December, the emotional landscape tends to shift. The holidays can bring warmth and connection, but they can also uncover memories or feelings we thought were tucked away. Joy and sadness can rise at the same time. Gratitude can sit right beside a sense of longing. A familiar song, a gathering, or even a simple conversation can stir emotions we did not expect.
It is natural for tender places to resurface. Healing unfolds in layers, and sometimes those layers ask for a bit more attention. Peace does not always arrive with certainty or resolution. Sometimes it comes as a gentle reminder that it is okay to slow down, to acknowledge what hurts, and to let grace hold the parts of your heart that feel unsettled.
Many people move through this season carrying more than they speak about. Some carry the weight of loss. Others carry stress, transition, or the quiet work of trying to keep everything together. Naming what you feel is not weakness. It is an act of courage, and it creates space for peace to enter.
If you are longing for steadiness or simply a place to exhale, Precious Hope Healing and Support (PH2S) is here for you. Our holiday healing group is designed to offer a supportive environment where you can process your emotions at your own pace. It is a space where honesty is welcome, rest is encouraged, and your story is treated with care. You will not be pushed to move faster than you are ready. You will not be expected to hide your truth. Instead, you will be invited into a compassionate community where grace is present and healing can unfold naturally.
You do not have to walk through this season alone. Let peace meet you where you are, and let support surround you as you rise toward healing and hope. Visit us at www.ph2s.org to learn more or sign up for an upcoming healing session.
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When the Holidays Feel Heavy
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December carries a kind of beauty that’s hard to describe. The lights glow, music fills the air, and familiar scents bring memories rushing back. But if we’re honest, the holiday season can also stir emotions we weren’t expecting. Joy and sorrow mingle. Laughter and longing sit side by side. The holidays have a way of revealing what’s still tender in us.
Grace understands that.
For many, December is not just a celebration, it is a reminder. A reminder of who’s missing, what changed, what didn’t heal, or what we quietly hoped would look different by now. And while the world around us rushes from event to event, grace whispers something gentler: “You don’t have to pretend. You don’t have to carry this alone.”
Most of us imagined our holidays one way, and life handed us something different. Maybe the table looks emptier this year. Maybe traditions feel different. Maybe joy comes in smaller portions. Or maybe you’re smiling on the outside while silently holding the weight of the year. This is called the disrupted middle.
Grace meets us in the middle of disappointment, in the middle of grief, in the middle of memories that make our eyes fill with tears at unexpected moments. This is why grace meets us in the disrupted middle … not after we recover, or “get it together.” But right there in the middle of our pain.
As you move through this season, give yourself permission to slow down. Step outside for fresh air. Sit in silence. Cry if you need to. Laugh when it comes. Choose rest when your mind or spirit feels overwhelmed. Grace surrounds you, carries you, and gently holds what your heart cannot.
If this season feels tender, find a safe, grace-filled place to process and breathe at Precious Hope Healing and Support (PH2S). We are offering Healing Through Grief group sessions designed to support you with compassion and care. Visit us at www.ph2s.org to learn more or sign up for an upcoming healing session. Let's rise toward healing and hope together!
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A Thanksgiving Reflection
As we step into Thanksgiving tomorrow, many of us hold both gratitude and grief in the same breath. Holidays have a way of shining light on the blessings we cherish while also stirring the memories, losses, and unspoken weight we quietly carry.
If this season feels tender for you, you are not alone. Grace meets us right in the middle, between celebration and sorrow, between full tables and empty chairs, between what we hoped for and what this year actually held.
Thankfulness is not pretending everything is perfect. Thankfulness is noticing the light that still breaks through. It is honoring the presence of grace in every chapter, even the complicated ones.
So wherever you find yourself this Thanksgiving, surrounded by family, traveling, working, resting, or simply trying to make it through the day, may grace wrap around you gently. May peace settle your mind, may hope steady your heart, and may you feel held in ways words cannot express.
If this holiday season brings up more than you expected, PH2S is offering Healing Through Grief sessions designed to support you with compassion and care. Visit www.ph2s.org to learn more or sign up for an upcoming healing session.
Let's rise toward healing and hope together!
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Learning to Rest
Recently, I took a vacation with my family across the world and let me tell you, it was a lot of work. Each day we were up early, hitting the streets, trying not to look like American tourists. And as grateful as I was for the opportunity, knowing how hard many of us work, save, and sacrifice for experiences like this, there was a point during one stop when I blurted out, “I want to go home.”
That surprised me, and those who heard me say it. I was supposed to be enjoying the fruit of my labor yet my body and spirit were tired. Deeply tired.
But grace taught me something right there: Rest is not a reward; it’s part of recovery. When the world says go, go, go; grace whispers, pause and breathe.
Even the beautiful parts of life can remind us how much we need to pause. Rest is not failure. Rest is not weakness. Rest is a sacred act of trust, trust that healing is happening even in the stillness and that you do not have to earn your right to breathe.
If you find yourself in the middle, between joy and exhaustion, gratitude and depletion, may grace meet you right there and remind you that rest is holy.
This holiday season, PH2S is offering a Healing Through Grief group to support anyone navigating loss, transition, or emotional heaviness. Visit www.ph2s.org to learn more or sign up for an upcoming healing session.
Let's rise toward healing and hope together!
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Grace in Waiting
“Patience is not the ability to wait, but how you act while you’re waiting.” — Joyce Meyer
We don’t usually like the waiting places in life. The pause between what we prayed for and what we see. The silence between questions and answers. The uncertainty between promise and fulfillment.
But it’s often in the waiting that grace does its quiet, transforming work.
Waiting has a way of exposing what we rely on most our plans, our control, our timing and inviting us to release them into something greater. It’s in these in-between spaces that grace whispers, “You don’t have to rush this. You’re still growing, even here.”
Sometimes grace doesn’t change the wait, but it changes us while we wait. It softens our hearts. It strengthens our trust. It deepens our gratitude for what we already have, while preparing us for what’s next.
So this week, if you find yourself waiting on healing, clarity, provision, or peace remember: grace hasn’t forgotten you. It’s already at work in the unseen, shaping what’s ahead and sustaining you right where you are.
Where in your life are you being asked to wait right now? And how might grace be meeting you in that space?
Join me next Wednesday as we continue our journey through Grace in the Middle, discovering how gratitude and hope can take root even in uncertainty.
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Strength and Stillness
Grace is more than a word, it’s a presence. It’s the strength that steadies trembling hands, the stillness that quiets a racing mind, and the soft reminder that even when life feels uncertain, we are not alone. Grace doesn’t rush our process or erase our pain; it meets us in the middle of it and teaches us patience, renewing hope, and inviting peace to take root where fear once lived.
As November unfolds, gratitude fills our timelines, tables, and hearts. Yet if we’re honest, gratitude can feel complicated when life doesn’t mirror the season we’re in. It’s hard to hold thankfulness when you’re standing in the middle of something unfinished, uncertain, or unresolved.
But this is exactly where grace meets us.
So as you move through this week, give yourself permission to slow down and notice the quiet places where grace is already at work. Gratitude doesn’t require everything to be perfect; it simply asks us to pay attention. Even in seasons of waiting or uncertainty, grace offers a steady hand and a soft place to rest as a reminder that growth is happening, even here. May you find moments of stillness that strengthen you and glimpses of grace that remind you you’re not walking this middle space alone.
Where might grace be showing up quietly in the middle of your life right now?
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