Season 1 · Remain
Remain.
We’re taking six weeks to dwell on one word: remain. What it means, how it changes the way we work, rest, and live, and what it looks like to stay close to God in an ordinary week. Every post, piece, and booklet this season grows out of that one word.
It starts in John 15, where Jesus tells His disciples that fruit grows from staying connected to Him, not from straining. Season 1 runs October 11 to November 20.
Still Life, Flowers, and Fruit, 1848 Severin Roesen National Gallery of Art, Washington
Drawn from
Week 1
- a branch doesn't wake up and try harder to be a branch.
- honest question:
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- wild how we spend all day trying to earn His attention.
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- how often we treat prayer like a report.
- you were made for faithful work.
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- most of us read John 15 like a performance review.
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- you can work hard today without working for His approval.
- whatever today looked like.
- rest isn't a reward for finishing.
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- the prodigal son had a whole speech ready.
- you don't have to clean yourself up before you come to Him.
- if all you did was keep showing up, that counts.
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Week 2
- some mornings you wake up already counting what didn't get done.
- i used to think peace came after the work was done.
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- you are not a machine to be optimized.
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- you'll never feel finished if "enough" keeps moving.
- you're not tired because you rest too little.
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- Martha wasn't doing anything wrong. she was serving Jesus.
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- you don't lose focus all at once.
- hit a goal you chased for months and felt... not much?
- the voice that says you're falling behind has never once said "okay. you can rest now."
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- when the second temple's foundation was laid, the old men who remembered the first one wept. it looked so small.
- rest today without building a case for it.
- Solomon had it all and called it vapor.
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Week 3
The release
The season closes with a release, November 14 to November 20.