Read 1 Peter 4:10–11 10 Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve others, as good stewards of the varied grace of God. 11...
For a long time, my life was driven by worldly desires. The people I surrounded myself with shaped the direction I was heading, and...
For a long time, I thought the problem in my life was everyone else. I was stubborn, prideful, demanding, and convinced that if...
My “40” wasn’t some massive public failure. It was something quieter, something that slowly kept pulling at my heart. I work at a...
My “40” started about a year and a half into working in Child Welfare Case Management in Florida. I went into the job wanting to help...
What I Was Chasing Couldn’t Satisfy Me | Omar Martinez For a long time, my life was driven by worldly desires. The people I surrounded...
Fear Was Quietly Controlling My Life | Larry Davidson For most of my life, I felt like I was always in my “40.” I grew up going to...
I Thought Freedom Would Fulfill Me | Lauren Carrera I grew up in church, but it was a very strict and judgmental environment. As I got...
I Began to Believe My Life Had Purpose | Emma Gardner There was a season when I felt deeply lost. It began after my Papa died. His...
Connection Replaced Isolation | Chris Lopez My “40” started in my early teens, and it came from something I didn’t expect to affect me...
What Broke Me, God Used to Remake Me | Kim Masson My “40” began in deep betrayal. It was the sin of someone in my own family, and it...
It Stops With Me | Ashley Miller I didn’t come into this world under easy circumstances. My story began in chaos, and for a long time,...
Healing Began When I Finally Believed I Had Worth | Amanda Rowley I was born into a cycle I didn’t choose. Mental illness, abuse,...
When the Lies Lost Their Power | Anonymous For most of my life, my mind was not a safe place to be. For forty years, the voice in my...
Peace Where There Had Only Been Chaos | Anonymous For years, it felt like we were living in constant motion and never arriving...
God Was Still Working in the Wilderness | Brent Wernsing There was a season when it felt like everything I had poured my life into was...
What Felt Like Loss Became Part of a Greater Story | Christine Wernsing There was a season when I thought the story of growing our...
Beauty From Ashes | Stephanie Hinckley There was a long season when it felt like every prayer we prayed for our family was met with...
God Was Writing a Different Story | Robbie Hinckley There was a season in our lives where we were walking through infertility and...
Peace in the Waiting | Teri McKay My “40” has been the pain of watching my son choose a path I know is not God’s plan, and if I’m...
