Takeaways

• Checking in with your heart, not just your calendar or to-do list, is a practice worth building into a busy season.
• Discomfort with silence is common, and it often masks avoidance of harder emotions, questions, or unresolved hurt.
• Scripture models honest prayer, not polished prayer, from David's raw psalms to Jesus's honesty in Gethsemane.
• Surrender follows honesty. Naming what's real comes first, letting go comes second.
• Five simple reflection questions can guide a weekly heart check-in: what you're carrying, grateful for, grieving, where you've seen God, and what you need to surrender.

In this episode of Find the Joy, host Courtney Vroman leads listeners through a practice of checking in with their hearts as summer winds down. She opens up about her own resistance to silence and s ...