The Stories Behind the Images

If you've spent time with one of these devotionals, you already know what it means to linger.

We don't rush through a verse and move on. We sit with it. We turn it over. We let it settle into the places that need it most. That's what this series has always been — a slow, unhurried walk through Scripture, one verse at a time.

The Pages That Linger newsletter is where that goes even deeper.

Because the question I get asked more than almost anything else is this: Why did you choose that image?

What made you choose that image, for that moment, for that message?

It's a question I love — because the honest answer is never simple. Every image has a story. A real season, a real struggle, a real moment where the image and the message found each other. And for a long time I didn't have anywhere to tell those stories.

This newsletter is that place.

Once a month, I'll take one image from the devotional series and tell you the real story behind it. Not the polished version — the honest one. The one that usually starts with something hard and ends somewhere I didn't expect.

That's what it means to linger a little longer.