The In-Between is Not Empty | "Bless Our Darkness" by Bukas Palad

She paid her own tuition. Booked the job. Showed up to every shoot.And still felt like she was one missed deadline away from completely losing it.In this episode of JOSh Friends, writer, actress, and creative communicator Kristen Abbey gets honest about Q1 of 2026 — the overcommitments, the unfinished drafts, the projects that didn't land the way she imagined, and the specific exhaustion that comes not from caring too little, but from caring about everything, all at once.And in the middle of all that striving — she found a song."Bless Our Darkness" by Bukas Palad doesn't ask God to take the hard parts away. It asks Him to show up inside them. To breathe life into the yearnings. To be faithful in the mess. And for someone whose life runs on creativity and deadlines and barely enough sleep — that prayer hit differently.As we enter the second week of Lent, this episode sits with a quiet but piercing truth from Sacred Space: the heart is too tender a space to be wasted on negativity. In a season that asks us to slow down and look inward, Kristen reflects on what it means to keep going — not because you have it all together, but because something deeper keeps calling you forward.This isn't a highlight reel. It's the in-between.And turns out — that's exactly where the light gets in.🎵 Listen to Bless Our Darkness and the full Bukas Palad album on Spotify https://found.ee/bless-our-darkness📖 Journey through Lent with more resources at jescom.ph/josh.Darkness isn't the end of the story. Sometimes, it's where it begins.