The Forty
A Rule of Life to Prepare You for What God Asks You to Carry
This space is about becoming available. Available to God. Available to the people around you. Available to carry what God is preparing you for, even when you cannot yet see what it is.
That kind of availability does not happen by accident. It is the result of paying attention to the slow work of formation that most lives never make room for. The drift that goes unnoticed. The voice that runs underneath the achievements. The defense mechanism that has been protecting you for so long it has become how you live.
I write about that work here. About what it looks like to recognize the drift before it becomes collapse, to name the voice underneath the functioning, to return to God with the whole person rather than just the part that knows the right words. Some of what I write will be personal. Some will be reflective. Some will be practical. All of it is part of one ongoing conversation about formation.
About the book
The Forty is a forthcoming book. A rule of life built around seven daily commitments practiced over forty days. Devotion. Fasting. Movement. Clarity. Gratitude. Cold. Kindness. None of them are new. The novelty is in the integration. Body, mind, and spirit, returning to alignment one ordinary morning at a time.
I wrote it because I needed it. The life I had built was no longer able to carry what life had given me. I had been managing an inner voice rather than answering it. I had been performing instead of being formed. The practices that finally made the difference came together slowly, over years, and eventually became the framework this book describes.
It is not a self-improvement program. It is not a forty-day challenge. It is a rule of life designed to prepare the whole person for what God is asking them to carry next.
This space is not a waiting room for the book. It is the conversation that runs alongside it. Whether you ever read the book or not, you are welcome here.
About me
I am Bill Weaver. I grew up watching my father, Herman “Thunderfoot” Weaver, live faith with purpose, first as an NFL punter and then through more than forty years of Christian ministry. I played college football at Georgia Tech, contributed to the 1990 National Championship team, built a career in technology, founded my own software company, and served for years as president of a regional youth football association.
By every external measure, the life worked. Underneath it, something else had been running for a long time. A voice that no achievement could quiet. A defense mechanism that kept the question manageable rather than answered. The slow recognition that I had built a life I did not yet have the foundation to carry.
The work of building that foundation is what I write about here.
How this works
I write roughly weekly, sometimes less. Notes between, when something is worth saying that does not need an essay. I would rather earn the time a post takes than fill your inbox.
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Bill
