Opening Your Hands: The First Step to Letting Go

Open woman's hands releasing sand at sunset, symbolizing letting go

Letting go doesn’t begin with the grand release—it begins with a quiet act of trust. Opening your hands is the first step. It’s the moment you choose to loosen your grip on what you can’t control and make space for what God longs to place in your life. In the stillness, those open hands become a posture of surrender and a position of strength.

We All Need a Soft Landing: Faith, Favor, and Healing in Exhausting Times

Soft landing reflection graphic on faith, favor, and healing from Journey to Me blog

We are living in a time when so many are quietly carrying the weight of exhaustion — emotional, spiritual, and physical. In this gentle reflection, Rita Lynn Berry explores the need for soft landings: sacred spaces where rest is honored, healing is possible, and faith makes room for restoration.

Spirit Moves in Signs: A Reflection on Listening Before the Shift

A close-up of a delicate spring bud emerging from a tree branch, surrounded by soft light and new green growth. A symbol of quiet beginnings and nature’s promise of transformation.

Before the breakthrough, there’s often a whisper. A loosening. A quiet sign that something is changing. We may be looking for thunder, but spirit often moves in softness—a single bud, a subtle release, a breath of clarity. In those sacred, in-between spaces, we are reminded: the shift begins before it’s visible. You are not stuck—you’re simply in the turning.