The Detour Called Self-Doubt | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep48

Roadside Notes · Aug 6, 2026 · 5m

The Detour Called Self-Doubt doesn't announce itself. It doesn't put up a sign or flash a warning light. It just quietly redirects you and before you know it you're sitting on the hood of your car at a gas station just off the highway staring at your phone like the answer is in there somewhere.

I pulled off for fuel on a stretch of road that doesn't offer a lot of options. There was one other car at the pumps. A man, maybe mid-forties, sitting on his hood with his phone in both hands and the look of someone who had been there a while. Not lost. Not broken down. Just stopped. He was on his way…