10/11/2026
HER NEXT CHAPTER. 🤍
Yesterday, I attended our church’s women’s conference, and WOW… what a WORD!
One thing that stayed with me is that sometimes we have to surrender the very things we’ve been holding on to—the dreams, the expectations, the plans, and even the pain—so God can lead us into what He has truly called us to.
I know what it’s like to walk through a chapter filled with grief. To find yourself in a place of pain you never imagined you’d have to navigate. To wonder how life could ever look beautiful again.
But I also know what happens when you surrender that brokenness to Jesus.
He doesn’t erase the story. He redeems it. 🤍
Yesterday, we were reminded of the woman at the well in John 4. After encountering Jesus, she left her water jar behind.
And that spoke to me so deeply.
Because how many of us are still carrying things from chapters God has already brought us through?
The hurt. The rejection. The disappointments. The grief. The expectations of what we thought life was supposed to look like.
That water jar can remind us of the things we keep carrying, even when Jesus is inviting us into something new.
You can remember what happened without remaining bound to it.
I will always carry love for the people I’ve lost. But I don’t have to allow the pain of those losses to define every chapter that follows.
God has taken places of deep sorrow in my life and brought forth beauty, purpose, and blessings I never could have imagined.
And He’s still writing. 🥹
So to the woman who is standing at the edge of her next chapter…
Leave the jar. Take the lesson. Walk in your freedom.
Your story isn’t over. And your next chapter doesn’t have to look anything like your last.
John 4:28–29 🤍
Thank You Dom-Migdalia Centeno for your obedience in bringing forth a soul nourishing word.