Digested from Noah Theis's reel “How Christians Get Out of a Funk” (@noahtheis_, 2:30). His claim: a funk isn't fixed by more stimulation but by a day built the way we were designed to work — alongside God, one small task at a time.
When the task is done, hit the road again. Thank the Lord for grace for the day, ask what He wants to do next with you, and repeat until bedtime:
The instinct when tiredness hits is to distract with something dopamine-hitting. Instead: go walk, talk with the Lord, and think about the next thing there is to do.
Work existed before the fall. We were made to do it while keeping a walk with God “in the cool of the day” — work and communion woven together, not work first and God squeezed in.
Small obtainable tasks punctuated by walking prayer let dopamine climb slowly all day instead of spiking and crashing. The result he promises: focus, attentiveness, and noticeably more creativity, even in mundane things.
Try it for one day. Then maybe the next day, and the day after that.
Summarized from the reel's spoken content and caption. Source: instagram.com/p/DbT0GlzM9di · Noah Theis (@noahtheis_), posted Jul 27, 2026.