🎙️ Sacred Wandering – Episode 217: Mercy Found Me in Japan

These are the words God gave me today…

After a week in Japan with my three oldest sons, my heart cracked wide open. I recorded this episode from the sacred land of Kyoto, where the shrines, the stillness, and the spirit of mercy wrapped around me like a blessing.

This week, I met the Goddess of Mercy not once, but twice. First on a hidden mountain shrine in Tokyo. Then again, unexpectedly, in Kyoto. Her presence stirred something in me I didn’t know I needed: the call to have mercy on myself.

I share a sacred moment at a well that never runs dry…
A sunrise prayer beneath a tree that whispered the first divine message:

“The tree allows her branches to grow any direction they want.
She allows them to curl and go up and down,
sprouting leaves and dropping leaves.
She never stops their growth,
and yet they are always connected to her.
Be the tree.
Firm and steady,
and allow your children to grow wherever they grow,
and remember though, they will always be rooted to you.”

This message arrived as I watched my adult sons move through the world—strong, sovereign, still tethered to me in invisible, eternal ways. It became a prayer for all mothers learning how to release and remain rooted at the same time.

Then, another message came—one I wasn’t expecting, as I sat beside a holy well surrounded by hydrangeas, praying for understanding. God whispered:

“Seek me in all things.
Find me in all things.
I am here in this holy land and I am also in the trash dumps.
I am in your sacred moments and I am in your rage.
I am in all things.
Do not try to only be one,
for it is in the all that you will meet me.
Surrender your control.
I have you.”

💫 We don’t only find God in temples or in peace.
We find God in the rage. In the mess.
In the miracle of still showing up.

Let today be a reminder:
God is in all things.
Even in you. Even now.

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