Hear the Ring
Updated: Jul 27
Recognizing When Disruption May Be an Invitation to Pay Closer Attention.
What do you do when the words surrounding you name exactly what you feel, but the phone beside you suggests there may be more to understand?
You can see anxiety, fear, loneliness, and complex trauma scattered beneath your feet. Your boots are already in place, sturdy enough to move, protect, or leave. The phone rests close by, quiet but present, as though this season is asking whether you will keep walking over what hurts or pause long enough to hear what it has been trying to tell you.
You may know this posture well. You stay prepared. You keep functioning. You become so skilled at carrying pressure that no one notices how much energy it takes to remain composed. The boots may reflect the strength that helped you survive, while the phone reveals the tension underneath: part of you is ready to act, but another part may still be deciding whether your distress is valid enough to answer.
Perhaps you have been producing from vigilance, self-doubt, and the belief that capable women should be able to endure any environment without being changed by it. That can produce exhaustion, anger, confusion, and distance from your own discernment. Yet the phone is not asking you to abandon your strength. It may be inviting you to stop treating every internal alarm as weakness and begin listening for the information hidden inside the disruption.
Are you ready to hear what your distress may be asking you to notice?
This is for the woman who has remained productive while quietly questioning her own perception. Let’s dive into how disruption can become an invitation to pay closer attention instead of proof that something is wrong with you.
Scripture: Judges 5:6–7
Let’s Sit With This: Hear The Ring
I couldn't hear the ring until I was driving down the highway when the world inside my mind became a war zone.