Sometimes the pain of today feels like a declaration of what my whole future will look like. These thoughts don’t seem like that big of a deal one by one—just like you would never look at an ant and think it could possibly take down a huge oak tree. Please hear me: it’s not wrong to have these thoughts, but it is dangerous to get consumed by them. To get hollowed out by them. To get even more vulnerable to the storms around us because of thoughts that erode our only true stability. Each doubt we have will cause us to either press into God or pull away from Him.

