What if honesty with God is the most courageous step you can take today? We invited mentor and soul care leader Lori McDaniel to help us name the ache so many of us carry—those seasons when we mouth “it is well” while our inner life says otherwise—and to show us how hard can actually be holy.

Lori shares her journey from decades of ministry into a new chapter of soul care alongside her husband, walking with pastors, missionaries, and everyday women who feel stretched thin by grief, fatigue, and questions that don’t resolve on cue.

Lori offers a hope-filled reframe you may never forget: this is the only time in all eternity we will commune with God from a place of pain. That doesn’t glorify suffering—it dignifies your story and calls you to steward it as sacred space where intimacy with Christ deepens.

If you’ve felt God’s silence, if your scaffolding has collapsed, if you need language for your lament, pull up a chair.

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