What happens when our minds rush ahead into a future that hasn’t arrived yet, quietly leaving God out of the picture?

In this episode, I reflect on a powerful scene from The Shack that has stayed with me for over a decade. It’s a moment that captures something many of us do without realizing it: we imagine a future filled with fear, loss, or overwhelm and then ask our bodies and souls to carry that weight as if it were already real.

This conversation explores what I call future-tripping and how it affects our faith, our nervous systems, and our ability to receive the grace God is offering us right now.

In this episode, we explore:

• What future-tripping is and why so many of us are unintentionally good at it
• How imagined futures can activate real fear in our bodies
• Why our nervous systems react the same way to imagined threats as real ones
• Simple ways to return to the here and now when your mind runs ahead

💡Today’s Big Idea:  Faith doesn’t deny big problems. It trusts a bigger God.

⚡️Today’s Small Step: When you notice yourself future-tripping this week, pause and gently return to the present moment:

• Name one thing you can see
• One thing you can feel
• One thing you can hear

LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE:

Turning Tension to Trust: A–Z Characteristics of God A gentle practice designed to help you redirect anxious mental energy toward trust, one letter and one moment at a time.

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