✨🔐🩷 Permission Granted🩷 🔓✨

Tonight is not a business meeting.

I want you to come with your beverage of choice. Whether that is water, tea, a cold ginger ale, or a glass of wine. I just want you to come as you are.

Come tired if you need to.

Come quiet if that is where you are.

But just come!

Because tonight I want to give you something that I had to receive for myself first.

Permission to rest.

A couple of days ago, someone said something that I have not been able to shake.

In order to maximize, you must minimize.

I sat with that. And then I looked at the last few months of my life. Twelve weeks of curriculum. Birthday parties. Anniversaries. Mother's Day. Father's Day. Hosting family. Celebrating. Running. Showing up. And doing it all while trying to build something meaningful in the margins.

And somewhere in the middle of all of that, I started hearing something quiet from the Holy Spirit.

Not loud. Just a whisper.

Rest. You are not available for that. Cancel that meeting. Reschedule that appointment.

I kept hearing it, and honestly I kept moving past it.

And then during a session where we were deciding how much time to give the community between the Q1 and Q2 curriculum, our community manager Victoria said four words that stopped me in my tracks.

"Just take the month off."

n that moment, something in me exhaled. Not going to lie, I wrestled with it. What it would look like from the outside. What it would mean for this community.

Then I realized it did not mean changing the vision. It was permission to better steward the vision in a way that would allow me to also benefit from what God is calling me to build for you.

Because what God is getting ready to do in the next season requires me to be full, not running on empty. And full requires rest. Real rest. Intentional rest. The kind that actually prepares you for what is next.

So tonight I want to extend that same permission to you.

For the next four weeks, we are not dropping new lessons. We are not adding anything to your plate. We are giving you space. Space to finish what you started. Space to breathe. Space to hear God more clearly without the noise of keeping up.

This is not a break from the vision. This is preparation for it. Shoot, it's permission for me to show up differently in the community...in a way that I finally may have the capacity for...You'll see😉

Because Quarter Two is coming. And what we are building next requires you to show up with clarity, capacity, and something left in the tank.

So between now and then, I want you to do one thing.

"Minimize so you can maximize."

Whatever that looks like for you. Maybe it stepping away from a role temporarily. Maybe it is finally finishing a week you skipped. Maybe it is sitting with your transformation statement until it clicks. Maybe it is putting the curriculum down entirely and just resting in God's presence for a few weeks.

All of it counts. All of it is faithful.

For me, I will be doing both. Resting and minimizing my distractions so that I can finally focus on building my course. So yes, I am locking in.

Tonight we are not here to solve problems or push through agendas. We are here to breathe together. Ask what you need to ask. Share what is on your heart. And receive what I believe God has for this room tonight.

And just so you know, we are open to how things evolve as we head into the next quarter. If that means giving these monthly sessions a new name and a fresh feel, I am all for it. Tonight is a good place to start figuring that out together.

So come as you are. Bring your drink. And get ready to exhale.

Permission granted. 💛

See you tonight at 9PM.

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✨🔐🩷 Permission Granted🩷 🔓✨