I have been in and around church my whole life. I have been seriously studying Scripture for what seems like a quarter of that time. The difference between those two took me longer than I would like to admit to understand.

In that study, I kept finding these characteristics from the men and women throughout Scripture whose lives were worth examining — not because they were perfect, but because something about the way they moved through the world was distinct. Set apart. The more I read, the more these concepts kept surfacing. After some time I was finally able to articulate what those words were to me: Holy. Humble. Heroic. Not as titles they were given, but as the texture of how they lived — in the ordinary moments, the unseen ones, the ones nobody recorded.

I couldn't let those words go. They kept returning, across different books, different stories, different seasons of my own life, until they finally crystallized into something I needed to pursue rather than just admire.

HHH is what happened when I stopped trying to let them go. This isn't completely defined, nor is it the answer to everything. It is an honest attempt to examine what it looks like to do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly — to live a life worthy of the call. To reach the end and hear the words "Well done, good and faithful servant." That is the aspiration. Everything here is in pursuit of that.

I have started trying to use these words to check myself in my own growth, and as a result, I find places that I need to review and shift ever more toward them. Whether in language, behavior, or anything else. I am not there. But I am pressing on, and I suspect that someone else would be willing to walk along that path with me.

— WSAO

"He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?"Micah 6:8

"Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much."Matthew 25:21

"I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."Philippians 3:14