When God is about to do something profound in your life
I wrote this post in the beginning of March and finally come around to publishing it now. It was interesting to read back because so much of it are words I need to hear now as I’m navigating through a hard and difficult space in this season of life. I decided it was time to turn on the paywall for more intimate and personal content for those who are more invested. I hope it reaches those who can feel seen in this too.
When God is about to do something profound and transformational in your life; he doesn’t make it obvious. He doesn’t get in your face. He doesn’t shout from the rooftops so loud that you can’t possibly miss what He’s showing you.
He doesn’t yell.
He does the exact opposite.
He whispers.
He whispers so quietly, so subtly, that if you were living a rushed, frantic, hurried speed of life, dreading the sound of the silence between one thought to the next, that you will miss Him entirely.
You will wonder where He is.
Why He won’t show up for you.
Why nothing seems to be changing.
And in that space of wondering, hard things may begin to grow in your heart like dread, impatience, and even bitterness.
All the while, he is still whispering.
You just can’t hear him over all the noise, all the distractions.
But when you slow down, truly slow down the pace of your life, something begins to shift.
Your breathing changes.
It gets deeper.
Your breaths are no longer shallow and short, grabbed in between endless tasks and worries of what you should do or shouldn’t do. They grow long, slow and steady, as if each exhale knows that it’s going to rest in His green pasture and each inhale feels like your first real deep, full and invigorating breath of the day.
And because you slow down, you begin to experience the fruits of peace and joy in your life. Not just have it come like a temporary visitor but you actually experience it in ways that begin to shift your perspective for the better.
Everything begins to rearrange itself around the peace and joy. Even when hard things happen, you are able to approach it from a grounded and centered place or can somehow see the silver lining in it all.
Lately, I have been in the practice of quick obedience to God’s calling in my life in ways that my ego would normally resist. I say practice because there are times I still fall short at this. Sometimes I wrestle with it longer than I care to admit.
The biggest change came at the beginning of this year, when I finally surrendered my role in my husband and I’s business and he took over fully.
As co-founders who built the business from the ground up together, we share equal responsibility across different departments. He has his role in the business and I have mine. And for years we operated like true partners in every sense of the word, both at home and at work.
But over time between moving to a new state thousands of miles away from family, working and raising our families full time; our plates became what felt like impossibly full.
Just a few months ago, our plate got so full that we thought about outsourcing a role to help with operations even though it’s still a little early to do financially. Just a few weeks postpartum, I was already staging and designing an entire home into a turnkey vacation rental for a client.
We felt like we could never quite get ahead. And while technically we had “freedom with our time” the reality of working in the hospitality industry is that it’s wildly unpredictable. Some days there is only maintenance. Other days, there is something urgent like a backed up septic and toilets that won’t drain and it doesn’t matter if we’re having dinner or spending time with our family. It demands for our attention.
So we started asking real questions:
How are we going to do this with two kids? How will be it be possible to keep up with this business while trying to be the most present parents?
Not just do it—but do it well.
I already wondered how we would manage all of this when we had one child.
Now we have two little girls fully depending on us and the decisions we make. Especially when you know the decisions you make today could impact the trajectory of the rest of their life.
Our daughter did attend montessori school for 3 months, and it was helpful for a short period. But deep down it didn’t feel aligned for our family. The time we have with our children while they are this little is so short, and something inside of us resisted sending her away during those fleeting years.
As the end of 2025 approached, we both felt it.
Something needed to change.
So we did the first thing that has always brought us the most clarity as a married couple.
We prayed.
And the answers to our prayers came, not all at once but in waves.
