Heavenly Treasures Weekly [#18]​
May 31, 2026

Read Time: ~5 minutes

Happy Sunday, Reader!

Most of us have a bucket list...

Places to go. Things to experience. Moments we don't want to miss.

But what if the most important items on your list have nothing to do with any of that?

This week, on the feast of the Holy Trinity, I want to talk about posterity.

What we leave behind. And what we are still becoming.

Scripture of the Week

"Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received."

— 1 Peter 4:10

The Freedom Shift

What's on your bucket list?

Mine used to be...

Places I wanted to go. Things I wanted to acquire. Life experiences I wanted to have.

And for most of my life, I thought that was the point.

As the old beer commercial said, "You only go around once in life, so grab for all the gusto you can."

But last year, something shifted.

And now my bucket list looks nothing like it used to.

Last year, I stepped away from everything.

I called it my Jubilee year, a year of celebration, sabbatical and pilgrimage.

Stopped working on my business. Cleared my calendar. Turned off the noise.

I found a spiritual director. I walked. I prayed. I read. I listened.

And in that space, new questions emerged.

What do I truly want? What am I missing? What should I focus my time on?

I thought about where I am now and what it took to get here, and I celebrated everything I had accomplished.

But deep down I knew it was time to say goodbye to what mattered then and forge a new path forward.

The world is different now. Or maybe I'm the one who has changed.

I no longer care whether I take another vacation, buy another car or jump out of an airplane.

I'm not saying I won't enjoy those things. (although I'm definitely not going skydiving, lol.)

But what I long for now is to know God's will for me and follow it.

I feel Him calling me toward deeper peace, prosperity and purpose, so I can share it with others.

For most of my life, I thought I knew what leaving a legacy meant.

I thought legacy was freedom.

Financial freedom. Lifestyle freedom. Time freedom.

I learned how to acquire those things and I wanted to pass on that knowledge.

The ability to build a life they love. To create income doing meaningful work. To never feel stuck or dependent on the system.

I believed in teaching them how to fish, not just handing them the fish.

And I still do.

But sitting in the stillness of that year, I saw something I hadn't seen before.

Freedom, by itself, isn't enough.

Because I had all of that and still longed for something more.

Until I found true peace, prosperity and purpose in God.

Peace that surpasses all understanding, in spite of the troubles of the world.

Prosperity in all areas of life, spiritually, physically and emotionally.

Purpose to love God and others using my unique gifts and talents.

My legacy is no longer about showing them how to build a life.

It's not about convincing anyone, correcting anyone or trying to control outcomes.

It's simpler than that.

It's about living my faith, putting my trust in God, sharing my insights and reaching out to those in need.

St. Peter says it best.

"Above all, maintain constant love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins. Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received."

I'm not sure I will ever fully check off these items on my new bucket list.

But I am excited to "grab the gusto' and go for it.

If I had to sum up what I want to pass on in three words, it would be this.

Seek the Spirit.

Because that is where peace, prosperity and purpose come together.

And here is what I know now, after all these years.

You don't find that life by striving harder.

You find it by seeking, reading, praying and surrendering.

"Do you know the plans I have for you, says the Lord."

He does. And you can find out just by asking Him.

They are better than any plans we could ever make for ourselves.

If this resonated, I would love for you to join me on my new YouTube channel, Seek the Spirit, where I share these reflections in video form every week.

You can find me at https://www.youtube.com/@SeektheSpiritwithJanet​

A Great Question for You

Reader, what's on your bucket list right now? And is it still the same list it used to be, or has something quietly shifted in you too?

Wellness Wisdom

Turn Off the Noise

Last year I made a decision that most people thought was unusual.

I stepped away from everything.

The business. The calendar. The news. The notifications. All of it.

I called it my Jubilee year.

At the time I described it as a sabbatical, a time of rest, prayer and pilgrimage.

But now, through my work with a brain health organization, I understand something I didn't fully grasp then.

What I was doing was giving my brain a chance to heal.

Here is what the science is showing us.

Stress is not just an emotional experience. It is a chemical one.

When we live in constant overwhelm, rushing, reacting, consuming more information than any human brain was designed to process, something happens at a molecular level.

Stress hormones flood the brain, triggering inflammation, and that inflammation is what causes the anxiety, the brain fog, the exhaustion that sleep never seems to fix.

Researchers are calling it a digital addiction epidemic.

And the brain is paying the price.

What reverses it?

The practices Jesus modeled two thousand years ago.

Prayer. Stillness. Solitude. Surrender.

These are precisely what the brain needs to shift out of fight or flight and into healing.

The Peace of Christ is not just a spiritual promise. It is a physiological pathway.

When we turn off the noise and turn toward God, we are literally creating the conditions our brains need to repair and thrive.

My soul knew what my brain needed before the science could explain it.

If you have been feeling drained, foggy or exhausted, you are not broken. You are overstimulated.

And the pathway back begins with something you already know how to do.

Be still. And know that He is God.

Reply with the word BRAIN and I will personally send you the brain health resources that are helping me every day.

Prospering with Purpose

The Cage Nobody Talks About

Let me ask you something.

When you imagined your life at this stage, is this what you pictured?

Maybe you built something real. A practice. A business. A career. Something that required years of sacrifice, long hours and more responsibility than most people will ever understand.

And somewhere along the way, the thing you built to give you freedom started to feel like a different kind of trap.

The schedule owns you. The clients need you. The overhead has to be covered. The phone does not stop.

You are not ungrateful. You know how hard you worked to get here.

But there is a quiet voice underneath all of it that keeps asking the same question.

Is this it?

I know that voice.

I heard it on a highway heading to a corporate sales meeting years ago, living what looked like a perfect life on Cape Cod.

I said out loud to myself in the car, "What is wrong with me? I'm just not happy."

That moment changed everything.

But here is what I want you to know today.

You are not stuck.

You may feel like you are because the economy is real, the mortgage is real, the responsibilities are real.

But there are more options available to people like you than most people ever stop long enough to discover.

Some of those options require nothing more than redirecting the expertise and trust you have already built.

Some require nothing more than a simple decision to let your livelihood finally catch up with your calling.

I am building something for exactly this moment.

For the chiropractor who loves healing people but is exhausted by running the practice.

For the coach or consultant who is good at what they do but trading too much time for too little freedom.

For the professional approaching retirement who is not ready to stop contributing but cannot afford to work for free.

For the retiree on a fixed income who has wisdom, gifts and energy to give and needs a simple way to turn that into something sustainable.

I do not have it ready for you today.

What I have is a promise...

If you stay close, keep reading, keep seeking, what is coming will be worth the wait!

The cage is not permanent.

And the key is closer than you think.

Stay tuned. 🌿

May the Peace of Christ be with you,
Janet

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