Feel the Shift: Hope Is in the Air

January 25, 20226

Feel the Shift: Hope Is in the Air

I want to share something really exciting and hopeful today. It’s a reflection on what I’ve experienced this past week — and why it should fill you with hope.

There is something different about this year.  I can feel it. And many others can too.

After several heavy years, coming out of those difficult pandemic years, there’s a quiet but unmistakable sense that hope is closer than it’s been in a long time. Not forced optimism. Not denial of reality. But a real sense that something is opening again.

I’ve been traveling this past week, spending time in environments that are deeply life-giving.

One was a health conference—full of physicians—where Scripture was spoken openly from the mouths of physicians on stage, the Holy Spirit was alive and present, and medicine and faith were not treated as separate worlds. These were medical professionals who love Jesus, practice excellent medicine, and carry a joy that is impossible to manufacture.

The other was a small business mastermind event for men and women who genuinely do life with God, and not as an abstract belief, but as a living, relational, daily reality. The kind of relationship with God where His guidance is expected, conversation is ongoing, and His power flows through daily.

What struck me most was that between those two rooms, one in Florida and one in California, I heard more Scripture, more acknowledgment of God, and more Holy Spirit language than I’ve heard in many churches across the country.

Physicians speaking Scripture from the Stage. Business owners making large and small business decisions through the still small voice of God.

I want to share with you how much hope and peace is ahead of you this year!

Because this is what the future looks like. This is what is emerging—not just in faith spaces, but in professional ones. In medicine, in leadership, and in everyday work. A future marked by joy, by clarity, and by people fully alive in who they are and why they’re here.

I left those spaces feeling ignited with joy and hope for the near future of medicine—not because everything is fixed, but because God is clearly moving. Quietly. Consistently. Powerfully.

If you’ve felt that same stirring—if something in you has been waking up again—know this:

You’re not imagining it.

You are definitely not behind.

It’s perfect timing.

And you’re not alone.

This is a year of realignment, of renewed hope, and of remembering who you are and why you were called. I’m incredibly expectant for what God is doing in medicine right now and for what He wants to do through people who are willing to pay attention. There is power in numbers. And there is something special about being in rooms where hope is allowed to grow.