This week we’re naming a familiar struggle: restlessness—the urge to go solo, power through, and stay in control even when we’re exhausted.

In John 15, Jesus offers an antidote: abide—stay connected to him like branches to a vine—because rootedness is where fruit and joy grow.

And in Acts 2, we see what happens when a community practices that connection together. We’ll reframe spiritual practices not as punishment or homework, but as means of grace—ordinary channels through which God meets us and forms us.