For Your Weekend: From Striving to Abiding

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read John 15:1–8

At the beginning of Lent, I shared how I’d been praying with the question, “In prayer, are you achieving or are you receiving?” It was a question that began to reveal to me areas of perfectionism and a performance-driven prayer. So, with humility and vulnerability, I embarked on a Lenten journey of surrender, inviting Jesus to minister to the desert of my heart.

And what a transformative journey it has been, my friends.

I started Lent slowly and ...