258. How Is Your Heart? A Mid-Year Check-In

Typically, mid-year brings goal reviews, progress reports, and questions about whether we’re “on track.” But what if, instead of measuring our accomplishments, we simply paused to ask a different question: How’s my heart?

In this episode, Julie invites you into a more impactful mid-year heart check. Instead of evaluating your productivity, comparing yourself to others, or focusing on what hasn’t gotten done, how about honestly taking a look at where you are with God and where He may be leading you next.

Julie shares several personal reflections from the first half of the year. From recovering from illness, launching her new devotional, leaving her church staff position after many years, embracing a new season with her grandchildren, and learning to release the need to control only what God can. She is learning something profound: abundant life is found in slowing down long enough to notice where God is.

Drawing from Lamentations 3:40, Julie encourages us to invite God to reveal anything that may need to be reordered. She offers practical questions to help us examine our hearts. She also reminds us that God isn’t asking us to strive harder. He’s simply inviting us to draw closer to Him.

How is your heart?

If you’ve been feeling like time is moving too quickly, life looks different than you expected, or you’re simply weary from trying to keep up, this episode will encourage you to breathe, refocus, and trust God with the season you’re in.

Julie shares how Abundant Life Mentoring was born out of her own desire for someone walk alongside her through life’s challenges. She also introduces her upcoming group mentoring community launching this fall. If you’re longing for ongoing encouragement and support, you’ll find links in the show notes to learn more.

No matter where you are today and what’s happened during the first half of this year, God is at work. So before you make another plan, take a moment to simply ask: How is your heart?