If They Suspected You Weren't Okay, They Wouldn't Even Say Hello | What the Room Cannot See E2

There is a sentence worth turning over in your head: nobody asks how anyone is doing, really. And if people suspect you are not okay, they will not even say hello.

That is not bitterness. That is observation.

The structural loneliness this series names is not just that people do not know how to be with you. It is that even the people who could ask instinctively know not to. When you are obviously fine, people approach you. When you might not be, people back away. This is not malice. It is the way most adults handle pain that is not their own. And in a worship leader's life, it produces a specific outcome — the Sundays where you most need to be seen are the Sundays where the room most quietly clears around you.

Anchored in 2 Corinthians 1:3-4. The Father of mercies and God of all comfort comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may comfort others through the comfort we ourselves received. When the room cannot extend comfort to you, the source of comfort has not changed. The room failed. The Father did not.

Formation to Transformation is a worship devotional for people who want worship to be more than a song set.

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Read the written version and get extra notes at ryanloche.substack.com. Subscribe so you do not miss the next episode.

Mentioned in this episode:

If you've enjoyed this devotional, would you please leave a rating and a review? You can keep up with everything at ryanloche.substack.com