Hey friends, it's Amber, and I'm about to get myself into good trouble again.

Fresh off surgery and recovery (praise God for answered prayers!), I've been wrestling with something I can't shake: What does real advocacy actually look like when it costs you something? Martin Luther King Jr. said the biggest obstacle to justice wasn't the hardcore opposition, but people who agreed in spirit but wouldn't pay the cost of action. And man, that convicted me.

Here's what I keep coming back to: Jesus didn't just have a soft heart. He had a soft heart with a backbone. He touched lepers when it was illegal. He defended the woman everyone wanted to stone. He put His body, His reputation, His life on the line—not for the righteous, but for the outcast.

In this episode, we're diving into what it means to keep a tender heart in a world trying to harden us. When people say "do your research," maybe what we really need is a heart search—going deeper to find where we might be waning in compassion.

I'm calling all of us (myself included) to uncomfortable discipleship. Because a soft heart without a backbone is just sentimentality. And a backbone without a soft heart is just cruelty.

Fair warning: Both sides might get mad at you for caring about the "wrong" people. But Jesus calls us to pay that price.

Let's get into some good trouble together.

Amber Weigand-Buckley is an Amazon #1 bestselling and multi-award-winning author, podcaster, and the founding editor and art director of the multi-award-winning Leading Hearts magazine. She's the #shortyellowpencilgirl living in a neurotypical world — navigating life with a beehive brain, a lot of sticky notes, and an unwavering belief that God wired her exactly right.

Host of #RandomDevoThoughts — where she unpacks the Jesus heart from the ADHD mind — Amber brings raw, relatable, and often hilarious insight to faith, mental health, and neurodivergent life. She's also co-host of Coffee Chat with Amber & Lisa.

Her newly released book, #SisterhoodoftheShortYellowPencils: Mental Health Mayhem, One Sticky Note at a Time, is out now — a humor-packed, gut-punch honest look at her own mental health journey that's equal parts laugh-out-loud and life-changing.

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