Tag: faith

  • When God Feels Silent — Trusting Divine Timing Through Stillness and Uncertainty

    When God Feels Silent — Trusting Divine Timing Through Stillness and Uncertainty

    There are seasons when the silence feels deafening.You pray, you wait, and you wonder if Heaven’s forgotten your name. You do all the “right” things—believe, surrender, stay hopeful—and yet, it feels like the answers never come. I know that space all too well.It’s the space between heartbreak and healing, between loss and meaning, between prayers…

  • Trust: The Bridge Between Fear and Freedom

    Trust: The Bridge Between Fear and Freedom

    Trust is one of those words that sounds simple but carries the weight of a lifetime. It’s not something we can buy, force, or rush into existence. Trust is a living thing—delicate yet powerful. It must be built slowly, almost brick by brick, experience by experience, moment by moment. And yet, despite all that effort,…

  • Hope as a Daily Practice

    Hope as a Daily Practice

    Hope is not always the grand, sweeping light we imagine. It is rarely fireworks, rarely the kind of brilliance that blinds us in awe. More often, it is a quiet ember—a small flame, fragile yet enduring, flickering in the unseen corners of our days. It is the kind of light that doesn’t shout but whispers,…

  • Religion and the Quiet Ways It Shapes Our Lives

    Religion is not just a matter of doctrine or ritual—it is a pulse that runs through human history, a current that carries stories, traditions, and the longing of the human heart. It is the rhythm of prayer beads slipping through fingers, the sound of hymns echoing through old stone chapels, the muezzin’s call rising with…

  • 🌿 The Strength of Fragile Faith: When Cracked Hearts Hold God’s Light

    🌿 The Strength of Fragile Faith: When Cracked Hearts Hold God’s Light

    By: Nayerie Youssefianwww.phoenixjourney.com Clarity Cookie: My faith deepened not when life was predictable—but when it shattered. I used to think faith looked polished. Perfect. Like a Sunday best with hands lifted high and prayers spoken with confidence. But my real faith? It was born in brokenness. I coach today not because I know all the…

  • 🌿 You’re Not Broken — You’re Becoming

    🌿 You’re Not Broken — You’re Becoming

    “Healing is not about fixing what’s broken. It’s about tending to what’s hurting with tenderness, patience, and truth.” Clarity Cookie: The word healing means a lot to me.Not just as an idea. Not just as a process.But as a sacred part of my life story. You see, I survived a near-fatal accident in my early…

  • Letting Go Saved My Life

    Letting Go Saved My Life

    (Inspired from Chapter 14: Ledges on Clarity Cookies: 52 Bite-Size Discoveries for the Ravenous Soul 🍪✨) “Leap and the net will appear.”— Zen saying Some moments in life don’t feel like moments at all — they feel like cliffs. And the only way forward is to take a daring leap, trusting that something — someone…