We’re praised for holding it all together, for keeping the plates spinning, for gripping tighter when life gets heavy. But nobody teaches us how to set things down. The world tells us strength is endurance at all costs but the strength that Jesus cultivates in us looks different. It breathes. It bends. It honours capacity. It knows when to release.

For a long time, I thought strength meant holding my family together, holding my emotions back, holding the future upright through sheer will. But that version of strength was brittle. The moment I whispered, “I can’t do this anymore,” was not the moment I broke , it was the moment I finally became strong enough to be present, to heal, to live a mission-driven life instead of a survival-driven one.

Laying something down is not failure.
It’s wisdom.
It’s worship.
It’s surrender, not collapse, but conscious release into the hands of the One who carries us.

That’s why I created the Be Still & Let Go Journal: to give you a gentle, Christ-centered rhythm for setting down what’s heavy, listening for God’s voice, and rediscovering the kind of strength that doesn’t require you to hold the whole world alone.