The Dishwasher Prophecies
Let's Get Ready to Rumble
God apparently looked at one strong-willed person and thought: "You know what this situation needs? Another one."
Jenika Denery
Jenika Denery writes at the crossroads of burnout and becoming. A recovering corporatologist, she now turns white papers into poetry, guided by Jeremiah 6:16 and the call to the ancient path of rest and restoration.
The God of Francesca
One of the things this story taught me is how little authority our carefully constructed plans actually have. In a matter of months, jobs disappeared, schedules changed, cities mattered, babies arrived, and lives were rewritten. God was never constrained by the things I thought were immovable.
The Dishwasher Prophecies
Grounds for Divorce (Sometimes)
Complacency is the numbing agent blurring the life within our beautiful marriages.
The Dishwasher Prophecies
The Dishwasher Prophecies // Entry 02
Cult classic movies taught us love should feel effortless. Real life taught us someone still has to buy toilet paper. A dispatch from the household trenches.
Corporatology
Corporatology 11: Per My Last Email
Because every workplace eventually becomes a tiny kingdom: territories, alliances, resource guarding, tone analysis, meeting feuds, documentation rituals, and ancient blood wars over spreadsheet ownership.
The Dishwasher Prophecies
The Dishwasher Prophecies // Entry 01
But beneath the passive aggression and the muttered cabinet slamming, there exists something strangely holy: the ongoing decision to care for one another in exhausting, repetitive, unglamorous ways.
Corporatology
Corporatology 10: The Broken Leader
If work is where you run to avoid real life, you will turn balance into another performance metric. You will optimize rest. Schedule healing. Curate peace. Brand your stillness. I am an overachiever addicted to a job well done. I do not just like excellence. I hide in it.
Corporatology
Corporatology 009: Death by a Label Maker
Labels don’t fail because they’re wrong. They fail because they’re incomplete. And somewhere along the way, we started treating them like truth.
Corporatology
Corporatology 008: The Hustle Gospel
Because the Hustle Gospel teaches you to fight for your worth every day. Grace invites you to lay your weapons down.
Corporatology
Corporatology 007: The Theology of Interruption
This is about dethroning productivity as identity. Surrendering to interruption as a form of healing. Sometimes God doesn’t whisper “rest.” He dismantles your reason not to, and it feels violent.
Corporatology
Corporatology 006: Hail, Miranda
The most radical thing a leader can do during performance review season is not to abolish the process, but to refuse the gods behind it.
Corporatology: Margins
Called By Name
Starting something new doesn’t automatically mean I feel brave. Sometimes it just means I'm willing. Maybe I'm still standing in the winepress— even while taking the next step. And then this scripture surfaced, steady and unmistakable: “I have called you by name; you are mine.” — Isaiah 43:1