Are You Okay?
Someone asked me that the other day, and I almost said yes. Almost. But the truth was more complicated. Maybe it is for you too.
This Lent, I need space to check in with myself—to ask, Am I okay?—and to sit with whatever answer comes. Some days, I might feel steady. Other days, I might not. And that’s what this season is for.
Because feelings don’t wait for the big moments. They surface in the middle of an ordinary day. You’re driving down a familiar street when a song on the radio pulls you back to a friendship that unraveled. You reach for your coffee, and a heaviness settles in before you even take a sip. You find an old photo, and joy and longing hit at the same time, leaving you unsure what to do with the ache.
The Psalms don’t try to fix emotions or move past them too quickly. They let us feel—grief, anger, exhaustion, joy. They remind us that it’s okay to wrestle, to not have the right words, to sit in the tension. And they also remind us that we’re not alone. That God meets us in it. That relief, even if it’s just for a breath, is real.
So each week, I’m making space for this—reading a Psalm, sitting with the emotions it stirs, and sharing it with you. Not as a solution, but as a way to be honest about what we carry and to find comfort in the God who holds us through it all.
