Abiding 

Season 2 | Episode 1

When suffering lasts long enough, waiting stops feeling like a season and starts feeling like life. Rachel Walters opens Season 2 of Sacred Thorns in the long middle—the ordinary Tuesdays, unanswered prayers, and years when nothing seems to change—and asks what it actually means to remain faithful when there is no resolution in sight.

Turning to Jesus' words in John 15, Rachel explores the invitation to abide: to remain, dwell, and stay connected to Christ. But abiding isn't another spiritual task to master. A branch doesn't produce fruit by striving harder; it bears fruit by staying connected to the Vine. 

Drawing from eight years of infertility and her own exhaustion with white-knuckling prayer, Rachel unpacks the difference between abiding and simply enduring, why escaping pain can become its own form of suffering. This is an invitation to stop measuring faith by progress and discover the sacred work of remaining—even when the thorn remains too.