Even Here

Voices bearing witness to God’s presence in every season

There is nowhere that God will not go, depth He will not search, mountiain He will not climb to find His beloved.

Even here in sadness, joy, contentment, grief, God is always always near.

Even here when we feel extremely alone or surrounded by people.

Even here in chaos, peace, or a little of each.

God is here. He is present. And knowing that God is with me even here brings me a comfort that only He can fulfill.

Not one moment too mundane or too messy for His grace to meet us.

I kept coming back to this phrase that stuck out to me: even here.

When the days stretch long and the years slip by too quickly: even here.

When the mental load feels foggy, too heavy to carry: even here.

When the kids bicker, the dishes pile, and patience feels thin: even here.

When the prayers feel unanswered and the faith feels faint: even here.

When joy feels far away and tears come without warning: even here.

When you’re unsure if you’re doing enough, being enough, holding enough: even here.

When laughter fills the house and peace finally settles in: even here too.

Because His grace doesn’t wait for the perfect moment to settle…it meets us in the present one no matter where you are.

Wherever here is for you today, He’s already in it.

Even here is the reminder we need that God doesn’t hold back in anyway. He is big enough for all of us and all of our burdens.

I felt that the Christian community I follow in Substack would have some other meaningful insight into this phrase, so I asked them to reflect on what even here means in their own journeys, lives, stories. Their words echo the truth that grace meets us where we are.

They responded with the following:

I am weary but He is Emmanuel, He is with me. He is El Roi, He is the God Who sees me. In that, like the weary world, I can rejoice 🤍 Kerrigan

Even here when parents get diseases and pass away, even here when relationships are shattered and reconciled, even here when times are good, even here in physical changes and growing older, even here with grandbabies, even here and even now God’s grace is everything! ♥️ Brooke Z

Even here, while I’m still getting used to this new place and missing what used to feel like home. Even here, when grief comes back without warning and I question if I’m doing enough as a wife, a mother, or even as a believer. Even here, when the lists stay unfinished and I feel like I should be more put together, He is steady. He doesn’t ask me to do more, only to be with Him. Mandy Morris

Even here - in the tender balance of reaching for the next season and moving quietly out of the last. Even here - while joy and grief swirling simultaneously.

Even here - with unknowns about the furure begging to take my mind hostage and regrets that haunt.

In hello and goodbye, curiosity and contentment, joy and grief, failure and faithfulness…even here He meets me ♡

“I have calmed and quieted my soul” Psalm 131:2 So She Wrote

Even here in my fatigue, when my mind sees all it longs to do, when my soul aches for what it used to do, yet still I amble along, trusting in His divine strength to do the things I get to do. Janelle | A Quiet Calling

In homes and hospital rooms, in tired bodies and hopeful hearts, in seasons we’re ready to leave and ones we’re afraid to enter, on mountaintops and in valley depths, these steadfast voices remind us that grace keeps showing up.

Not loudly. Not perfectly. But passionately and faithfully.

We listen, we learn, and we remind one another of what is easy to forget:

God is near.

He is always present.

Even here.