Feel like you are tangled up inside? Wound tightly with fear, unable to let go and release?

In these middle years fraught with questions, we often have to reconsider who we believe we are, who society says we ought to be and who God is actually making us to be. Sometimes untangling all the messaging takes slowing down and letting go.

In Pursuit of Slow ThingsShannon BrinkFebruary 3, 2020Comment

In Pursuit of Slow Things: The Track

What are you striving after? Does it feel like you are racing against time, age, and circumstance to do all that you desire to do?

In this piece I am examining my own perpetual pull towards the racetrack of achievement and coming face to face with the truth that the finish line is always moving and what lies beyond it, is not soul-satisfying.

In Pursuit of Slow ThingsShannon BrinkJanuary 28, 2020Comment

In Pursuit of Slow Things: Changing Skies

Do you long for dramatic season changes? Or are you okay with the slow, steady, continuity of seasonal predictability?

In this post I share what changing skies look like here in Malawi and my own longing for change and wrestling with contentment.