It’s Been a While on the Podcast Front! I know.
For the last year or so, I’ve been quieter than usual. Some of that was intentional. Some of it wasn’t. Life has a way of inviting us into seasons we never would have chosen, and somewhere along the way I realized God wasn’t asking me to produce more. He was asking me to pay attention.
There’s a verse in Isaiah that has followed me for years:
“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?” (Isaiah 43:19)
That word—perceive—has always captivated me. Not because I doubt God is doing new things. But because I wonder if I’m paying enough attention to recognize them. I‘m constantly asking the Lord to keep me from becoming so attached to what He’s done that I miss what He’s doing. Or maybe even worse…That I recognize the new wine, but forget the new wineskin.
Jesus said you can’t pour new wine into old wineskins. The wine is good. The problem isn’t the wine. The problem is trying to force something new into a container that was only meant for a previous season. Eventually, it bursts. I’ve been thinking about that a lot. Because over the last several years, God has been quietly forming something in me.
When I wrote Nomad, I thought I was writing about the wilderness.
When I created I Cry in Corners, I thought I was talking about surrender.
When I wrote Still Waters Don’t Make Saints, I thought I was writing about storms.
Looking back now, I realize I wasn’t writing three different stories. I was telling one story from three different landscapes. A story about becoming. About the slow, beautiful work of God forming us into the likeness of Christ.
That realization changed everything. It also made me realize something else. The Corner was never the destination. It was the doorway. I Cry in Corners has always been built on one conviction: the leaders who change the world are the ones who first meet God in secret.
I still believe that with everything in me. But once we’ve met God there… He doesn’t ask us to stay in the corner forever. He invites us to follow. That’s where Sheep Thrills was born.
Not because I outgrew the Corner.
Not because I wanted a different brand.
But because I wanted the container to match what God was doing. The invitation has always been the same: Follow Me. So that’s what we’re going to do. Together.
We’re beginning with Psalm 23—not because it’s familiar, but because I believe it’s one of the clearest pictures in all of Scripture of what it means to follow the Good Shepherd.
My prayer is that this new season helps us learn to stay close to His voice, trust His leading, and become the kind of people who recognize Him wherever He leads. Thank you for walking with me. Whether you’ve been here since the Corner or this is your very first step on the trail, I’m grateful you’re here.
Let’s take a walk.
Onward.
— Chari
