Fearless Friday: The Two Rooms
What two rooms taught me about calling and contentment.
I’ve spent this week in two very different rooms.
One room was filled with women building businesses, recording podcasts, and launching new ideas. They created from a deep purpose. These women had vision, courage, and calling. But it came at a cost. Their bodies bore the pressure of ‘more.’ Their hearts wrestled with faithfulness as they pursued their dreams.
They spoke about strategy, storytelling, and what God might call them to create next. I listened to one woman share how her body carried the pressure of constant performance. She described the tension between passion and depletion. Another speaker explained how trauma shows up in our work. Inner chaos becomes outer chaos. I felt that. Struggling with the weight of my own ambitions, I’ve often found myself at exhaustion’s edge. Drive battles depletion. Sometimes, what we call ‘hustle’ is just a heart trying to heal.
Then a few days later, I walked into a very different kind of room.
This one was quieter. There was no stage, no branding, and no panel of experts. These women weren’t building something new. They were tending to what already is. Their pace was slower. Their laughter was softer. Their joy felt more settled. Their conversations centered on grandbabies, communities, and God’s faithful presence in every season.
One woman said something that stopped me:
“Being a grandmother feels like having a second chance to get right what you didn’t get right the first time.”
There was such peace in that room. Not because life had been easy, but because they had stopped trying to earn what God had already given: acceptance, belonging, and purpose.
Leaving both spaces, I realized how each had impacted me in different ways.
In one room, I was inspired to dream bigger. In the other, I was invited to breathe deeper.
What I’m Into This Week
📖 READING: Lord, Change Me by Evelyn Christensen. Probably one of the best books I’ve read in a long time.
🎧 PODCAST: I Wish God Would Hurry Up - Fearless Forward
🍂 FIND: This blanket has been useful during our bonfire nights lately
🐴 WATCHING: The Alabama Solution - The people that made this know how to make documentaries
Maybe that’s the tension: the space between building and being, between chasing what’s next and resting in what’s now. Reflecting on both rooms, I realized the women in the first could learn from those in the second. Success without peace is just noise. Rest doesn’t take away from our purpose.
And maybe the women in the second room could learn from the first. God’s not done dreaming through them. Their wisdom still fuels what He’s building next.
We need both.
The builders and the be-ers.
The ones carrying the torch and the ones holding the light steady.
Together, they remind us of the Kingdom’s rhythm, where work and worship are dance partners, not rivals.
So, maybe the question isn’t which room you’re in.
Maybe the real question is: Can you hold the peace of one room and the purpose of the other?
That’s the kind of woman I want to be.
Faithful in the fire. Rested in the finish. Fearless in both.
If You Feel Stuck in One Room
Start with one small shift.
If you’ve been stuck in the building room where you’re always reaching, planning, and producing, take one intentional pause. Step outside. Breathe a prayer that doesn’t have a deadline. Remind yourself that obedience isn’t measured in output.
If you’ve been stuck in the being room, content but maybe afraid to dream again, ask God for one new assignment. Something small, quiet, but stretching. He’s still writing through your story.
The first step isn’t to change rooms, it’s to invite God to meet you right where you are.
Because the work He’s doing in you will always prepare you for the room He’s leading you to.
Sometimes growth doesn’t mean switching rooms. It means learning how to carry peace into purpose, and purpose into peace.
Michelle