The Weekly Way
A weekly letter about faith, food, and the small things that shape a life.
Recent writings, a verse, something worth carrying into the days ahead. Join the readers who've said yes to one intentional thing every week.
What’s Inside Each Issue
Recent writings
Essays on faith, food, and intentional living from the blog, and more things worth reading at a slower pace.
Scripture, briefly unpacked. Not a sermon, just something real to carry into the week.
A verse + reflection
A recipe, a technique, something delicious, whatever's been on my stove or in my oven that week, shared the way a friend would share it.
(Start with this 3-day French strawberry jam that’s worth every second.)
From the kitchen
Notes from whatever season I'm in. The weekly letter feels like a letter because it is one.
Something personal
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A sample verse + reflection from the newsletter:
“Be still and know that I am God.”
“You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.”
These two verses describe the same relationship from opposite directions.
In Psalm 46, you are the one doing the knowing, but only after you've released your grip. The psalm opens with the earth giving way and mountains falling into the sea. God isn't inviting you to a gentle realization. He's commanding stillness so that the knowing can break through.
Psalm 139 reverses the movement entirely. This time, we don't arrive at God through stillness — He has already arrived at you. David is receiving the weight of already being fully seen. The Hebrew yada (to know) is intimate, comprehensive, and relational. It's not intellectual knowledge. God knows you the way you know someone you have lived alongside for years.
Taken together the verses highlight something important: we quiet ourselves to know Him, and we find in that intimacy that He already knew us first.
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