Remembering Is a Strategy

Have you ever been staring at a spreadsheet at midnight, wrestling with payroll, and felt this soul-deep weariness? Or maybe you're standing in your empty office on a Sunday, the silence screaming with the weight of decisions only you can make. I've been there. Like you, I know that feeling of isolation, the gnawing fear that you're not enough, that you're a fraud about to be exposed. It's in those moments, when the pressure is crushing, that I've found a surprising lifeline: remembering. Psalm 77:11 says, "I'll remember the deeds of the Lord; yes, I'll remember your miracles of long ago." It's a verse I come back to again and again.

The Forgotten Discipline of Intentional Remembrance

Remembering isn't some soft, sentimental thing. It's a discipline, a deliberate choice, and honestly, a game-changer for leadership. I've found it to be true. In Psalm 77, Asaph is in a pit. He can't sleep. He's questioning everything. I get it.