This one started with a drive.
Back when I was going through a rough season, I had a habit that probably didn't make much sense to anyone watching. Late at night, usually around ten, I'd get in my car and drive out to the beach. Ninety minutes each way. I'd stand there for maybe twenty minutes and watch the stars over the ocean, then drive the ninety minutes back home.
Three hours of driving for twenty minutes of standing in the dark. But it was never really about the stars.
I went out there to feel small.
When you're in a hard season, everything shrinks down to the size of your problem. It gets loud. It sits on your chest. Your whole world kind of narrows until the thing you're carrying feels like the biggest thing there is.
Standing under a sky full of stars does the opposite. It reminds you how big God is, and how small you are next to Him. And honestly, that's a relief. Because if He is that big, then the thing crushing me is not as big as it feels.
The Bible keeps coming back to this. The same God who is with you on your worst night is the one who put every star up there and knows them all by name.
"When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them?" (Psalm 8:3-4)
"He determines the number of the stars; he calls them each by name." (Psalm 147:4)
There are more of them than we could ever count, and He named every one. And that same God is mindful of you. Not too busy. Not far off. Mindful of the exact season you are in right now.
That's the thought that settled something in me out there on the sand. If the stars bow to Him, then who am I to keep holding on so tight. So I let it go. If even the stars bow to Him, then so will I.
That's where this one comes from.
About the artwork
The design on the hoodie is that same scene. The moon, the stars, the ocean at night. Hannah Guernsey made it, and honestly she captured the feeling of those drives better than I could put into words.
Wear what you believe
The whole point of what we make is pretty simple. Wear what you believe. We are named after Psalm 46:10, "Be still, and know that I am God," because so much of faith is learning to be still and remember how big He is when everything in you wants to panic.
And because we think faith and mental health belong in the same conversation, 10% of our profits go to Christian mental health efforts.
If you are in a hard season right now, here is the one thing I would tell you. Go find something bigger than your problem to look at. For me it was the stars over the ocean. For all of us, it is the God who made them.
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Caleb
