Steadfast Sanity

Where broken becomes beautiful

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  • Blueprints in the Wilderness: Part Two

    The Journey to Peace “Though He slay me, yet I will trust in Him.” – Job 13:15 Chapter 4: The Great Surrender When everything false is finally stripped away When Tim left, it wasn’t just another heartbreak—it was the final blow that sent me crashing back into nothingness. Everything I thought I had rebuilt, every Read more

  • Blueprints in the Wilderness: Part one

    Prologue: Letters of Gratitude to My Past “Sometimes the most painful detours become the most sacred destinations.” There are stories we tell ourselves about our past—narratives that cast certain people as villains and certain circumstances as tragedies. But time has a way of rewriting those stories, of revealing the hidden blueprints that were being drawn Read more

  • Ending Where It Began: My Final Y.W.A.M Post

    The raw, unfiltered entry from June 29, 2014 This is the final piece of my Y.W.A.M story—the blog post I wrote roughly 5-8 months after leaving the program. I’ve shared my processed reflections in previous posts, but this is the raw, unfiltered entry exactly as my 18-year-old self wrote it in 2014. Reading it now, Read more

  • The Y.W.A.M Diaries: When Hope Became Survival

    Blog posts from inside the system, 2013-2014 Picture, if you will, a young woman sitting at her laptop in the summer of 2013, her fingers dancing across keys with the kind of unbridled enthusiasm that only comes from believing you’re exactly where God wants you to be. She writes with exclamation points scattered like confetti, Read more

  • The Y.W.A.M Chapter: How One Experience Shaped a Decade

    A journey from self-blame to self-truth An Introduction Recently, someone asked me to share my Y.W.A.M (Youth With A Mission) story. I started to tell it casually, the way you might mention any difficult chapter from your past, but I quickly realized the story was too long, too layered, too important to be compressed into Read more

  • Intro: Square Pegs and Sacred Truths

    Welcome to Steadfast Sanity Where ancient wisdom meets modern truth A Note from Rachael Hello, beautiful souls. Welcome to my corner of the internet—a place I’ve named with intention and deep meaning: Steadfast Sanity. Perhaps you knew me from my old blog, “Rachael Around The World,” where I documented my missionary adventures with the wide-eyed Read more