Here’s another note from my season series.
I hope something in these words resonates with you and encourages you in whatever season you are walking through.
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There was a time when I was trying to do everything.
Lead teams.
Finish my thesis.
Run my sisters’ community.
Plan a major event.
From the outside it looked admirable. Full. Productive. Purposeful.
But inside, every morning felt like opening a browser with too many tabs, each one blinking quietly with guilt.
Something was always undone.
Something overdue.
I celebrated productivity in those days. I wore it like a badge. But my soul was quietly paying the price.
One morning, during a hurried time with God, I read a verse that stopped me:
“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.” — Book of Ecclesiastes 9:10
I had read that scripture many times before.
But that morning it sounded different.
I had always heard it as an instruction to do many things well.
But suddenly it felt like an invitation to do one thing fully.
Just one.
Not everything with equal intensity.
Not every opportunity at once.
Just the thing placed in my hands today.
So I made a quiet decision.
Instead of trying to perfect my entire life, I would choose one small practice and protect it.
Twenty minutes each morning.
Scripture.
Reflection.
A few honest lines in my journal.
No measuring it against a long list of other tasks.
No guilt about what was left undone.
Just that one thing, done with presence.
At first it felt almost too simple. Surely something so small could not change much.
But grace has a way of working quietly.
Day after day, those twenty minutes began to soften the edges of my life.
My decisions as a leader felt clearer.
My conversations carried more patience.
And slowly, I became less interested in chasing every urgent thing.
Because the most important thing had already happened that morning.
Another verse began to live in my heart during that season:
“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” — Gospel of Matthew 6:33
Seek first.
Not seek everything at once.
Just first.
What surprised me most was this: the world celebrates multitasking, but the soul seems to flourish in simplicity.
One faithful habit.
Repeated quietly.
Day after day.
It creates a kind of reservoir inside you, a place to draw from when the day becomes noisy.
And the noise will come. Emails will arrive. Deadlines will appear. Opportunities will knock.
But when your heart has already been anchored, those things no longer carry the same power over you.
If your days have begun to feel scattered, you might try something small.
Choose one practice.
A short prayer in the morning.
A single verse of scripture.
One sentence of gratitude in a journal.
Guard it gently.
Not as another task to perform, but as a place to meet God.
Seven mornings is enough to begin noticing the difference.
So let me ask you something quietly.
What is one small practice your heart needs this week?
Protect it.
And see what begins to grow in the quiet.
I’m praying your heart finds rest in the choices you make.
Love,
Nkiruka