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reinvented.

June 30, 2025June 30, 20252 Comments

Behold, I am doing a new thing . . . Isaiah 43:19

There have been three moments in my life where the starting over has been very marked . . .

The first was in 2015 when my then-husband and I miscarried our 6-week-old angel. The pregnancy had been a surprise because we’d been told conceiving would be hard—though not impossible—for us. After conceiving, the morning sickness was also hard, but I committed to the disciplines God led me to despite how I felt. While the life inside me was ultimately lost, I felt mine was just beginning. So I pledged to God to do just that: start over, keep Him first in all things, and get back to living. You can read about my experience in this blog post from January 2016.

My second moment came not too long after the aforementioned pledging. In August 2018, I was working for a local nonprofit and began to sense the what next point in my career in the nonprofit sector. The Lord led me to found my own work line, as I called it then, where I’d service nonprofits as a freelancer and have my own base of clients. Fast forward a few years, and after a few revisions to the original founding, MELCHEE formed into a thriving and meaningful pathing in Christian media and nonprofit support. The journey to now hasn’t been easy, but it’s been so worth it.

My latest “moment” has involved more of just my own personal evolving, coming more into myself as a 50+ woman, and learning daily, it seems, what matters and what doesn’t. Life has been “life-ing,” as the saying goes, and it hasn’t all felt good. I feel like I’ve started over more times in this season than in any other so far. But is that a bad thing?

I think that with each new day, we’re given a chance to start again, to leave yesterday behind, and focus on the now. We can awaken to a version of ourselves appointed with new mercies and grace, favor, clothed and in our right mind, with the full armor of God bestowed. We can choose to lean into divine reinvention and do so with each dawn, at each hour, minute, or second of the day, after each hurt, victory, loss, or at every place of joy. Start over, realign, and get back on the potter’s wheel as many times as needed, and allow God to reveal Himself to you in ways above all that you could ask or think.

He’s just that kind of God.

wonder and be astounded

April 4, 20253 Comments

spring 2025 | marking 10 years of blogging . . .

In the midst of uncertainty and struggles, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed or even question God and what He’s doing or seemingly not doing. Ask me how I know . . .

Last summer when I was fired from my job, why is what mostly occupied my thoughts, followed by how am I going to make it. But I turned to the Scripture that I’d centered on at the start of the year: “Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told”(Habakkuk 1:5, ESV).

Centered. Finding myself at loss, God began His work (He never stopped, actually), reminding me that He’s always at work, even when we can’t see it. The Habakkuk verse calls us to step back and marvel—to look for the signs of His movement in the world and trust that He is orchestrating things for a purpose, above and beyond what we can ask or think (Ephesians 3:20). Even in challenging times, He is doing something amazing, and if we keep our eyes open, we’ll see it unfold. Trust His perfect timing and know that He is at work in ways that will leave you speechless.

So, keep your heart open, stay faithful, and watch in awe as God’s will manifests in your life and in the world. I never thought that after my termination the Lord would lead me to one of the most fulfilling roles I’ve ever had, working in ministry, growing and learning in new gifting, tying it together with what I do on MELCHEE personally, and enjoying it all immensely. Wonder and be astounded.
-Melchee Johnson

In worship of God, in service to others

February 24, 2024Leave a comment

For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son | John 3:16

New Day has a new look and name: MELCHEE (well, except for the New Day LIVE! talk show). Welcome to those new to these parts!

Our mission remains the same: to point others to Christ and serve in love. Faith and community continue to be the heart of what we do, and I’m grateful to be a carrier of this work. To God be the glory in all.

Here in the midst of Lent, our hearts are focused on Christ. We reflect on our need for forgiveness and receive His unmatched love to wash away our sins. What a great and mighty God we serve to think of us in such a way as to save us. We’re undeserving, but His love shines greater than the whole of our sins. It’s often mysterious, hard to grasp, unfeelable. But it’s available to those who say yes to it.

The end of our fasting, praying, and reading during this season should be change. We should have renewed focus to live for Christ. Fasting (from food, the biblical way) should show our need to turn away from sin, and so our commitment must be firm. We will fall, but the goal is to fall less. We should see growth and strength as a result of our time spent with the Lord and resurrection with Christ from the dead of our choices. Thank God for allowing us to be in worship of Him!

Here at MELCHEE, we don’t just share empty words that you’ll soon forget, but our hope is that you’ll see our every effort to share Christ’s message of amazing grace and to enrourage involvement in community, helping brothers and sisters in need, showing Christ’s love tangibly. This is the favorable time, and it’s the time to live for Him. We pray you’ll join us on this journey.