"Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life." — Proverbs 4:23 I'll be honest with you. I took a break recently. Not a planned one, more like the kind your body forces on you when it's had enough. The noise had become a physical weight. Not metaphorically. I mean, I could feel it sitting on my chest. The headlines. The hot takes. The carefully curated outrage delivered straight to my palm, twenty-four hours a day, by a device I carry everywhere —

I didn’t write a post the last two week. I needed to step back, quiet the noise, and reset my mind. I wanted to make sure that when I sat down to write again, I was entirely focused on the true meaning of the Gospel, completely separated from the religious “mouthwash” and the political show we see so often today. Because let’s be honest: Christianity has been hijacked. It has been co-opted by political movements, by fanaticism, and by a culture that values the aesthetic of fa