Devotional

The Quiet Habit That Will Change Your Year

It takes four minutes, requires no app, and I've never regretted it. Not once.

April 22, 2026
A still lake at dawn with mist rising off the water.

It's called examen, and it's been around for five hundred years. I don't know why it took me this long to find it. Every night, four minutes, five questions. That's the whole thing.

The five questions

Where did I notice God today? Where did I miss him? What am I grateful for? What am I grieving? What's one thing I want to carry into tomorrow? Write the answers in the margin of a book if you have to — just answer them.