The following article is an excerpt from Bound to Be Free: Escaping Performance to Be Capture by Grace by D.A. Horton. Soon after my conversion to Christianity, I began laboring in the work of ministry…I convinced myself during my initial days of salvation that busyness equaled holiness.

This excerpt from Beginnings: The First Seven Days of the Rest of Your Life is taken from Day Four, which represents the seasons of our life–Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. The story of Hannah begins in the soul-crushing season of winter.