What if the question isn’t, “Why don’t they want help?” What if the better question is, “What are we not seeing?” This article invites readers to move beyond assumptions about homelessness, addiction, and mental health and discover the people, pain, resilience, and hope that often go unnoticed.
Crisis does not wait for business hours.
Yet many of the systems designed to help people are only accessible Monday through Friday, from 8 to 5 – closed on weekends, evenings, and holidays. But pain, loneliness, addiction, homelessness, mental health struggles, and even moments of breakthrough happen at every hour of the day and night.
What happens when someone is finally ready to ask for help… but the door is closed?
If we truly believe in a continuum of care, then perhaps it is time to rethink whether support should only exist during traditional schedules – because human struggle has never followed a clock.
On this Memorial Day, we pause to remember the courageous men and women who gave their lives in service to our nation. We honor not only their sacrifice, but also the families who carry their memory forward with strength and love. Because they were willing to serve, even without knowing if they would return, we continue to live in the hope and freedoms their bravery helped protect. Today, we remember with gratitude, humility, and deep respect.
A reflection on motherhood, grief, gratitude, healing, and the many ways love shapes our lives. Mother’s Day carries with it a thousand different emotions. For some, it is joy, celebration, gratitude, and love. For others, it brings grief, disappointment, longing, or silence. It reminds us of the mothers who nurtured us well, the women who…
What if the problem isn’t that the world is rejecting faith…
but that it no longer recognizes what it’s seeing?
Jesus said we are the light of the world – but somewhere along the way, we traded light for noise, hope for arguments, and presence for positioning. Faith was never meant to be proven through louder voices or sharper debates. It was meant to be seen.
Maybe the call was never to win people over with words…
but to live in such a way that they begin asking why.
What if the voice you’ve been listening to isn’t the one telling the truth?
This reflection invites you to quiet the noise of shame, reframe your story, and see your scars not as proof of failure—but as evidence of survival. You are not too much. You are not invisible. You are enough.
We live in a time where leadership is often defined by what side you’re on. But what if that’s the wrong starting point?
Good leadership isn’t about defending a position – it’s about pursuing what is true, holding conviction with humility, and refusing to reduce people to categories.
The challenge isn’t choosing sides.
It’s learning how to see people clearly – and lead with both truth and grace.
Leadership is shaped by daily choices – choosing growth over negativity, hope over cynicism, and empowerment over fear. Every choice quietly determines where we lead others.
