When Taking Care Becomes Taking Over: The Costly Illusion of Control

There are some friends who don’t just write words — they write the ones you didn’t know you desperately needed. My dear friend Lysa TerKeurst has a gift for walking straight into the tender, tangled places of the heart and shining the kind of light that makes you feel seen rather than exposed. This one stopped me. Because if you’ve ever found yourself white-knuckling the illusion that if you just research enough, prepare enough, or worry enough, you can somehow keep the people you love safe from pain — Lysa is about to say the thing your soul has been needing to hear. She is one of the most honest, brave, and deeply grace-filled voices I know, and I couldn’t be more grateful she’s pulling up a chair at the farm table today… Guest Post by Lysa TerKeurst You can’t begin to imagine what a profound pleasure it was to sit down to talk with Lysa TerKeurst in the belltower of our 1896 old stone church — this is genuinely a NOT-TO-BE-MISSED-CONVERSATION….  Don’t miss our powerful video convo below… Recently, I was having a conversation with my friend Leah. The topic was one we’d processed for years: her dad passing away because […]