Inflow: What Entered My Heart
At fourteen, he saw her picture on social media and knocked over a bowl of cereal racing to check his inbox. She replied with one word: 'Sir.' Long-distance calls. Praying together. Singing. A first date that detoured through a church service. Walking eight miles to her school. This chapter traces the first love that shaped how Emmanuel understood connection — and the fear that entered alongside it.
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At fourteen, he saw her picture on social media and knocked over a bowl of cereal racing to check his inbox. She replied with one word: 'Sir.' Long-distance calls. Praying together. Singing. A first date that detoured through a church service. Walking eight miles to her school. This chapter traces the first love that shaped how Emmanuel understood connection — and the fear that entered alongside it.
"Sometimes I was falling in love with a version of them I had created in my own mind."
— Inflow: What Entered My Heart, God With Us
Scripture anchor
Proverbs 4:23
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Inflow: What Entered My Heart
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