How to Awaken Wonder in Life: A Story and Prayer
Reading Time: 5 minutes When I was a child I threw myself at life. Literally I flung myself over cliffs and down precipitous bike …
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Finding Desperate Hope in a 3,000 Year Old Prayer
Reading Time: 4 minutes In 2007 I was despondent and depressed. My dream of living in my beloved Rockies was on life support. Again …
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Two Reasons Extreme Adventure Isn’t All It’s Cracked up to Be
Reading Time: 5 minutes Sitting on a rooftop during lunchbreak with a fellow carpenter I marveled at the wild Colorado sky. Distant lightning bolts …
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A Prayer for Help to Guide Me through the Day
Reading Time: 2 minutes At sunrise, Lord, Grasp our hands And set our feet At a Godspeed pace On the path of love and …
5 Ways to Find God and Yourself in your Story
Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s ironic no one knows who wrote the pithy phrase “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken!” No, it wasn’t Oscar …
How Self-discovery and the Enneagram Can Only Lead You So Far
Reading Time: 5 minutes Who are you? I’m a fan of the Enneagram and all things self-discovery. But quipping, “I’m a Seven or an …
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How the Blood Red Thread of Easter Hope Can Change You
Reading Time: 3 minutes After we buried my dad, my world was as dark as death. Every time we visited the cemetery, I would …
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Mixing Our Tears with Jesus’ Blood: A Good Friday Poem
Reading Time: 3 minutes Mary’s Loss: Death When people think of paradox, they often think of contradiction and confusion. Good Friday is that kind …
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How Jesus Gives a Damn about our Suffering: A Maundy Thursday Poem
Reading Time: 3 minutes The first time I celebrated Easter as something more than bunnies and colored eggs was in 1973. I’d become a …
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A Prayer Against Violence: An Honest Conversation with God
Reading Time: 3 minutes Like you I’ve been trying to process the most recent senseless killings in Boulder (and Atlanta). I’ve started several …
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