Hi, Happy July! This months collection I wanted to do a night drop. A lot of these are deep late night thoughts & writings so I’m giving you guys at the time most of these thoughts were born. ☁️
For a long time, I wrote about Narnia.
Not the place itself, but what it represented to me—a longing. The feeling that somewhere, somehow, there was a different life waiting. A version of me I hadn’t met yet. A world that felt more alive than the one I was standing in. Lately, I’ve realized something: maybe I wasn’t looking for narnia. Maybe I was looking for Heaven.
Not a perfect life, but an unfamiliar one.
One where I take care of myself because I want to, not because I have to. One where my relationship with God isn’t something I fit into the margins of my day. One where community matters more than consumption. One where I choose curiosity over distraction, presence over escape, intention over habit.
This issue is a collection of that journey.
Inside are essays about every version of myself I’ve been, what it means to return home after drifting, the quiet revolution toward slower living, learning to ask whether we actually want the lives we say we do, a June audit of where I’m headed, thoughts inspired by John C. Lilly, recipes to make, a summer bucket list, and a few invitations to participate more fully in your own life.
This is about outgrowing the person who once got me here. For years, I unknowingly shaped myself around survival. Around old fears, old habits, old identities, old versions of me that were necessary at the time but no longer fit the life I’m trying to build. Leaving those parts behind has been surprisingly uncomfortable.
There’s a quote that says, “You’re so afraid of an unfamiliar heaven because you’re so familiar with hell.”
I think that’s where I am. Standing somewhere beautiful that still feels foreign.
Learning that healing isn’t always dramatic. Sometimes it’s simply choosing, over and over again, to become someone who no longer needs the things that once kept her alive.
Maybe heaven isn’t a destination at all.
Maybe it’s the quiet life we build when we stop surviving long enough to finally start living.
Welcome to An Unfamiliar Heaven.
Links:
Blog Posts:
Who Am I Without My Struggles?
224 Talks:
Are You Seeing Reality, or Your Interpretation of It?
Visit The Hub to find our mini cookbook ‘Feed Your Soul’ & the Summer Daze Bucket List! ☁️
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