Rooted, Not Rushed

To be honest, I have wondered how to announce this project because I have never written something that feels more poignant and personal to where I am right now.

And in the many conversations I’ve had, it’s confirmed what I think we are all feeling.

HOW do we stop feeling so SCATTERED and PULLED by the things happening around us and actually be PRESENT for our lives?

How do we live in a world that is constantly asking for our attention without handing it our attention?

How do we stay tender when there is so much to carry? How do we care deeply without carrying everything? How do we show up for the people right in front of us when our minds have 74 tabs open somewhere else?

How do we make sure that while our lives are getting wider, our roots are still getting deeper?

Because I don’t think the deepest problem is that we’re busy.

I think it’s how quietly a busy, distracted, reactive life can begin forming us.

We start measuring ourselves by standards we never consciously chose. Reacting to whatever feels most urgent. Living three steps ahead of our own lives. Being everywhere and somehow missing where we actually are.

And I have felt this in my own bones.

I don’t want to become better at managing my scatteredness.

I want to become ROOTED.

I think we feel the tension— knowing that we are being formed and that WHO WE ARE is our life.

We feel the weight of knowing that while you’re so busy building a life, you can miss actually living it. And that who you are? Well— THAT is your actual life.

This book isn’t just about your pace. It’s really more so about recognizing how your soul is being formed as you go— and what good is it to gain the whole world and lose your soul?

Jesus offers a DIFFERENT WAY. It disrupts our normal and allows us to actually delight in the life we have. It prepares us to be people of peace regardless of what pulls at us.

We can grow roots deep enough to hold us steady and lives wide enough to give His love away. Isn’t that the Gospel?

I have never believed more deeply in a message and honestly, I’ve never fought harder to resist my flesh and walk it out myself.

ROOTED, NOT RUSHED is officially available for preorder TODAY 🌳🌱