Even in the Small Things | Faith, Meditation, and Mindfulness for Black Women

Feb 3, 2026 · 48m

This is it—the season finale, and honey, it's a full-circle moment. Jewelle gets real about how she's been "living a lesson and a test out loud" throughout this entire season, building in front of you while God was building HER up from the inside. In this raw, powerful episode, she unpacks what it means to grow from infant faith to mature faith—from a baby who needs constant direction to a sovereign woman who can govern herself from Christ consciousness and make Spirit-led moves. Drawing from Ephesians 4:11-16 and Genesis 1:26, Jewelle reveals that you are made in God's image, crowned with dominion and creative power—and it's time to stop using "I'm waiting on God" as a cover for fear. Through the Six Values of Divine Reality Co-Creation and The Three Sovereign Questions, she shows you how to step into true partnership with God: claiming your power, making bold decisions, and surrendering outcomes all at once.🔑 Key MessageYou are a divine being made in God's image, and the journey from surrender to sovereignty is really about growing up in your faith—learning that God doesn't need you small and frozen, but confident and moving boldly in partnership.✨ What You’ll Walk Away WithA framework for understanding infant faith versus mature faith—and where you might be stuck in spiritual infancyPermission to stop playing small and step into your sovereignty as a divine being with dominion and creative powerThe Three Sovereign Questions—a practical tool for any decision that helps you claim your power, take aligned action, and surrender outcomes🧠 By the end of this episode, you’ll see how:Surrender alone keeps you in infant faith—true co-creation with God requires sovereignty (governing from Christ consciousness), agency (using your power), and surrender working togetherYou cannot surrender what you do not first own—mature faith means knowing you're powerful, capable, and able to make decisions, THEN choosing to align with God's will from that place of fullnessGod wants you smart and sovereign, not small and subservient—you're not a spoiled nepo-baby but a child of the King, raised right and trusted with the assignment💌 Meant for your reflection:As you listen, consider:"Am I truly surrendered or am I just frozen? Am I trusting God or hiding behind 'waiting on God' because I'm scared to move?""What would I choose, decide, or create if I fully owned my power as a sovereign being made in God's image?""Where in my life is God calling me to grow UP—to stop needing constant direction and start governing myself from divine alignment?"Enjoying the show? Connect with JewelleFollow on Instagram: @jewelletbrown @eveninthesmallthingsListen on Youtube: @jewelletbrownSubscribe to the newsletter: ⁠eveninthesmallthings.substack.com⁠

Jan 20, 2026 · 12m

As a companion to Episode 10, this minisode features a short, reflective check-in to help you return to the vision you’re holding with God and reconnect with the theme guiding this season of your life. Through gentle stillness, prayerful listening, and guided reflection, you’ll create space to notice what God is inviting you to embody today and how to move in alignment—without pressure, urgency, or overthinking. This practice is an invitation to return, recalibrate, and walk forward in partnership with God, one faithful step at a time.

Jan 13, 2026 · 43m

What if planning your year wasn't about setting goals you hope God will bless, but about asking Him what He wants to birth through you? In this episode, Jewelle introduces Life Visioning—a spiritual discernment practice developed by Rev. Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith that shifts the question from "What do I want to accomplish?" to "What is seeking to emerge through me?" Drawing from scripture, Beckwith's teachings, and Danielle Laporte's Core Desired Feelings framework, Jewelle walks you through how to receive God's vision for you, identify the spiritual qualities you're called to embody, choose a theme that captures this partnership, and build a flexible plan rooted in surrender and inspired action. If you've been setting New Year resolutions that drain you, feel misaligned with who you're becoming, or fizzle out by February, this episode offers an alternative approach to goal-setting - one that honors both God's sovereign plan and your deepest desires, and feels sustainable, spiritually grounded, and deeply aligned.🔑 Key MessageWhen we receive vision from God first, our plans and actions gain clarity, direction, and purpose.✨ What You’ll Walk Away WithA deeper understanding of Life Visioning as spiritual discernment—how to receive God's vision through stillness, the four foundational questions, and identifying qualities before conditions A new approach to annual planning that honors both God's sovereign plan and your deepest desires, helping you choose a theme word that becomes your north star for the yearPractical tools for surrender and embodiment—how to release attachment to outcomes, take inspired action aligned with your theme, and live the qualities of your vision dailyBy the end of this episode, you’ll see how:Life Visioning positions you as an instrument of divine intelligence, not the architect demanding approvalQualities (joy, peace, abundance, radiance) come before forms (the job, the house, the number)—and focusing on qualities keeps you flexible, open to God's surprises, and aligned with what's truly bestYour annual theme can become a filter for important decisions, a reminder of who you're becoming, and a daily practice of partnership with GodMeant for your reflection:As you listen, consider:"Where have I been planning FOR God (asking Him to bless my agenda) instead of planning WITH God (receiving His vision and aligning with it)?""What vision is seeking to emerge through me this year? What is God inviting me to become, not just accomplish?""How do I want to feel as I steward God's vision? What spiritual qualities am I being called to embody daily?"🎧 Enjoying the show? Connect with JewelleFollow on Instagram: @jewelletbrown | @eveninthesmallthings Listen on YouTube: @jewelletbrown Subscribe to the newsletter: eveninthesmallthings.substack.com

Dec 30, 2025 · 13m

As a companion to Episode 9, this minisode features a guided daydreaming visualization designed to help you rest, connect with God, and imagine a liberated future rooted in safety, freedom, and wholeness. Through breath, ancestral remembrance, and intentional imagination, you’ll be guided into DreamSpace—a sacred pause where productivity and pressure fall away, your nervous system softens, and divine possibility becomes accessible. This practice invites you to honor the women who came before you, reconnect with your intuition, and envision a future shaped by rest, trust, and liberation—one you are already building by choosing presence.If you are driving or doing any activity that requires you to be alert, you can certainly listen along, but please revisit this minisode when you can safely close your eyes and fully partake in the visualization.

Dec 23, 2025 · 36m

Why is rest so hard for Black women to claim—and what does it cost us when we don’t?In this episode, Jewelle explores the spiritual, ancestral, and energetic necessity of rest for Black women, naming it not as a luxury, but as a practice of resistance, remembrance, and restoration. Drawing from scripture, epigenetics, Afrofuturism, and the teachings of Tricia Hersey (The Nap Ministry) and Cole Arthur Riley (Black Liturgies), this conversation traces how rest was denied, criminalized, and extracted from Black women’s bodies—and why reclaiming it now is essential to our liberation, pleasure, and holistic wellbeing.Through stories of lineage, Sabbath theology, dreamspace, and the life of Jesus Himself, Jewelle invites listeners to see rest as our divine birthright—one that returns us to God, reconnects us to our bodies, and helps us imagine and build liberated futures.This is a call to stop performing, stop proving, and start resting—not just for ourselves, but for those who came before us and the Black women coming after us.🔑 Key MessageRest is not optional for Black women—it is a sacred practice that honors our ancestors, restores our dignity, and reconnects us to God and our inherent divinity.✨ What You’ll Walk Away WithA deeper understanding of why rest feels so foreign to Black women and how historical, generational, and spiritual forces shaped that reality.Encouragement to release guilt, performance, and urgency, and to see rest as obedience, trust, and divine inheritance.Practical tools for embodying rest as resistance, remembrance, intimacy, dignity, and Sabbath—without needing to earn it.🧠 By the end of this episode, you’ll see how:Rest disrupts systems of extraction and refuses productivity as the measure of worth.Choosing rest honors ancestors who were denied it and rewrites what we pass down.God uses rest, stillness, and dreamspace to heal, guide, and reveal liberated futures.🌿 Meant for your reflection:As you listen, consider:When was the last time you rested without guilt or justification?What beliefs about rest did you inherit—and which ones are you ready to release?How might your rest today shape the world Black women inherit tomorrow?📲Enjoying the show? Connect with JewelleFollow on Instagram: @jewelletbrown @eveninthesmallthingsListen on Youtube: @jewelletbrownSubscribe to the newsletter: ⁠eveninthesmallthings.substack.com⁠🔗 Resources MentionedTricia Hersey’s Song “Rest Life”Tricia Hersey’s Dreamscape Playlist