Angel Gabriel spoke those words to a teenage girl who had just been told she was going to carry the Son of God. Mary had not made this request. She had not petitioned heaven with such a bold prayer.

When God moves, the restoration He brings is so complete and so sudden that the people receiving it feel like they must be dreaming. That is a description of how God works when the fullness of His timing finally arrives.

He said he would put in a word. He had seen what you were capable of, watched you work with the kind of clarity and faithfulness that does not go unnoticed, and when the moment came he told you he would remember you.

It is a Friday morning and nothing seem to have changed. The same inbox with no replies, the same situation with no way out, the same prayers going up and the same silence coming back down.

Twenty pieces of silver was what Joseph's brothers decided he was worth to them. He was not a stranger, neither was he an enemy to them. Betrayal from an enemy is painful, but betrayal from someone who knows you is something that settles into a different part of you entirely

Some stories are too painful to have made sense while they were happening. Joseph's brothers stripped him of his favourite coat, threw him into a pit, and sold him into slavery, all before he turned eighteen.

You may not have been told by anybody that following God could lead you somewhere this quiet and this dry

There is a father in Mark 9 who brought his son to Jesus after years of watching him suffer with no relief in sight. When Jesus told him that all things are possible to him who believes, the man's response was not a confident declaration. It was something far more honest.

In Part 1 we said something that might still feel hard to fully accept. Starting over is not proof that you failed. It is often proof that God is calling you somewhere new, but knowing that in your head and knowing what to actually do with your hands are two very different things.

Starting over has a particular kind of weight to it. It does not just feel like a loss but an evidence. Evidence that you made the wrong choices, that you missed something, that the people who doubted you were right all along.