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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Faith
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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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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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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Inspired Imagination: Your Superpower Against Worry, Anxiety, and Fear
Reading Time: 5 minutes A divinely inspired imagination can bring peace of mind and actually develop faith.
Winter Prayer: A Cry for Relief when Hope Is Frozen
Reading Time: 2 minutes A WINTER PSALM As winter yearns for spring, As a frozen river anticipates thaw, O Lord, We wait on you, …
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How God Rekindles Your Hope in Darkness
Reading Time: 5 minutes On December 31, 1977 I sat fidgeting with the buttons on my flannel shirt in The Red-Headed-Wildflower’s parent’s living room. …
How to Celebrate a Christmas Haunted by Ghosts
Reading Time: 5 minutes Ghosts have haunted many of my Christmases. Not in the terrifying way Charles Dicken’s ghosts haunted Scrooge. But much more …
Is There More You Can Do When You Can’t Do Enough?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Often soothing the pain and questions in life is as far beyond us as the stars. This paralyzing self-doubt usually …
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