Nicole Smithee

Feeling drained? 🫠 Trying to love others when your own tank is empty is exhausting. But here’s the truth:
👉 You can’t give what you don’t have.

God invites you to live from overflow, not fumes.
Swipe through for 4 rhythms to refill your soul:
✅ Meditate on His Word
✅ Listen in the silence
✅ Pray to your Father
✅ Receive from community

Pause. Pull over. Refuel with His presence.
Because when you’re filled with His love, loving others becomes natural. 💛

📖 John 15:12 | 1 John 4:19

✨ Which rhythm do you need most today?

💔 The headlines feel unbearably heavy right now. Tragedy after tragedy, grief upon grief… and it can leave us asking: How do we even begin to process this?

Here’s what Scripture calls us to do in times like these:
🙏 Pray — Cry out to God for the hurting, the grieving, and the broken.
📵 Limit consumption — Step away from the noise online and make space to breathe, pray, and live in the goodness around you.
🤝 Talk with trusted people — Grieve, pray, and process together.
❤️ Commit to compassion — Don’t just preach love, live it. Be the Good Samaritan in your world today.

Friends, our hope isn’t in political answers or louder arguments — it’s in Jesus.
In Him, light shines in the darkness. In Him, peace is still possible. In Him, love is greater than hate.

Let’s be people who mourn with those who mourn, pray without ceasing, and choose compassion over blame. 🌿

🌱 Growth doesn’t happen by accident—it happens when we stay curious and keep learning. From books and podcasts to simple daily habits, the things we take in shape the way we think, live, and follow Jesus.
Here are a few resources that have been inspiring me lately—maybe they’ll spark something new for you too! ✨

👉 Swipe through for my current favorites.
Which one would you try first?

🎉 Happy birthday, Ben. It’s the big 4-0 for you! Welcome to the Forties Club, babe. 😃

I’m so in love with you, proud of you and inspired by you. Your love and strength, generosity and wisdom, humility and resilience is extraordinary. Your loving and loyal presence as a husband, father, leader, friend, and ultimately, follower of Jesus not only sets the tone for our family, but is a constant source of strength and encouragement to us.

I thank God for you every day. I won the jackpot in getting to grow old with you. May this next decade be filled with unfailing love, overflowing joy, persistent peace, many adventures, new dreams, a ton of laughter, and the sweetest of memories made.

Happy birthday, my love. 😘