03/11/2026
We need to stop obsessing over leaves
and start tending our roots. 🌱
Our culture has made us self-obsessed.
We have become our biggest idol.
We are so desperate and longing for love
that we lose ourselves in the process.
As women of God, we have to become aware of the fact that every industry is speaking to our insecurity, our doubt, our flaws.
They tell us to be beautiful and talented, multi-faceted… put your career aside, “you don’t need no man.”
But what happens when everything the world tells us is countercultural to what God calls us to?
Buy this.
Have that.
Become this.
It’s exhausting — in every way.
The leaves are not the important part of the walk.
The roots are.
Proven character.
The “who we are when no one is looking.”
That’s what God cares about.
And we focus so heavily on what other people will see, think, or hear about us that we don’t even realize we’ve gone astray.
I believe this breaks God’s heart for us in so many ways.
He made you in His image.
We are carriers of His presence.
We get to bring His light with us wherever we go.
But our self-obsession has us dimming that light and seeking validation from a world that will never fully accept you.
Ever.
It’s heartbreaking, really.
How we look for approval from the same people who hated our Lord — the One we are called to look like, act like, and love like in a world far from the will of the Father.
If we keep focusing on the leaves, we will never grow the roots we need to sustain us when the storm comes.
And the storm comes.
Jesus never promised that it wouldn’t — only that our strength lies in Him, and that He has prepared a place for us in front of our enemies.
Sis — please hear my heart for you.
It’s your roots He cares about.
How you know Him, love Him, and learn to be loved by Him is what truly counts.
And those roots?
They will sustain you
and offer you His peace. 🤍
If you are learning how to grow deep roots, you aren’t alone here. 🌱