I release the need to force what faith can carry
Today I acknowledge how tightly I grip.
I try to control everything — the outcomes, the timing, the tasks, the details — because I want everything to work out the way it should.
I want the boxes checked.
I want the relief of completion.
But faith does not require force.
Trusting God in my behavior would mean slowing down.
It would mean not over-explaining.
It would mean letting something unfold without managing every inch of it.
I have already been carried through things that should have broken me.
My whole life is proof.
Every chapter shows I was never alone — even when it felt that way.
What I keep trying to “figure out” may actually require surrender.
This may not be a strategy moment.
This may be a stillness moment.
If peace came before answers, my body would relax.
My shoulders would drop.
My breath would deepen.
The urgency would dissolve.
I often mistake movement for faith.
But alignment is the goal.
Stillness can be faith.
Trust can look like restraint.
The truth about who I am today — not my past wounds, not my fear — deserves to lead.
Now I have to live it.
Love and light to all… and so it is.
Rev Angela July | Still I Rise Ministries 💛