Introducing The Selah Project: Faith, Motherhood, and Learning to Live in the Pause

When I first began writing here, this space was called The Sacred Soft Life.

The heart behind that name was always about intentional living and biblical motherhood. It was about building a life with God at the center, paying attention to the small, ordinary moments, and choosing connection and intention over rushing and striving.

Over time, though, that language started to feel like it didn’t fully hold what I wanted to write about.

As I continued walking through a season of burnout and rebuilding, I realized that what I was being drawn toward was not just “soft living” or “slow living,” and not even “intentional living” as a lifestyle on its own. It was something deeper.

It was Selah.

In Scripture, Selah is often understood as a kind of musical or literary pause. It appears in the Psalms at moments where the words stop and space is made to reflect, to lift the heart in praise, and to let what God has said settle deeply.

That meaning began to feel like a truer expression of what I want this space to be.

I also call this a project very intentionally.

In school, a project is something you return to again and again, shaping it over time into something meaningful and intentional. It is often something you work on with others and is guided by a teacher or someone overseeing the process. That idea feels deeply connected to what this space is meant to be.

The Selah Project is not a finished product. It is an ongoing work of becoming. It is about walking with God and with one another as we try to live more intentionally for God, for others, and with others.

This digital magazine exists to encourage women in that continued work. Not as something we perfect ourselves, but as something God is faithfully, patiently perfecting in us through the unfolding story of our lives.

Soft and slow living still has a place in these pages, but it is not the whole story. At its heart, this magazine is about learning how to pause with God in the middle of real life. It is about sitting with Scripture instead of rushing past it, and about letting faith shape motherhood, wellness, and daily rhythms from the inside out.

As a digital magazine, this space is now organized around a few recurring columns—ongoing threads of writing that I return to again and again, alongside one-off essays, reflections, and encouragement.

Up to this point, much of my writing here has lived under a series called Becoming After Burnout. Moving forward, that work will now live under the name Rooted Rhythms. This column focuses on faith-anchored practices and gentle rhythms for rebuilding life and faith after burnout, including the disciplines, frameworks, and practices that helped steady me when life felt fragile.

Alongside Rooted Rhythms, I am also introducing two additional columns. Magical Motherhood is rooted in the ways I have learned to romanticize life and rediscover joy after burnout—not by escaping real life, but by learning to see the life God has already given me with fresh eyes. This column explores finding delight and meaning in motherhood, in daily rhythms, and in my relationship with God, allowing joy, beauty, and wonder to gently return.

Sacred Stories will be a space for shared testimony, featuring stories from other women about burnout, rebuilding, and the ways God has met them in seasons of exhaustion, transition, and growth. These stories will be thoughtfully curated and shared as they are available, and in seasons when a Sacred Story is not featured, a one-off reflective essay will be published in its place.

You will also continue to find writing from my ongoing Analog Living series, which documents my intentional experiment in slowing down, living more offline, and cultivating presence in daily life.

Moving forward, these columns will generally follow a monthly rhythm: the first week of each month will feature Rooted Rhythms, followed by Magical Motherhood, then Sacred Stories, and then Analog Living. In addition to these columns, In the Margins editor’s notes—short reflections, prayers, and encouragement—will be shared as inspired.

Nothing about this space is changing in substance. Everything that has lived here will continue. It now lives under one shared name: a small digital magazine for modern Christian and Christian-curious moms who want to live intentionally with God through the pause.

I am so honored you are here with me in the pause, sweet friend. Let’s continue in the hope that one day God will finish the good work He started in us.

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Selah