How shitty times so often force us to learn and grow
Reading Time: 5 minutes One spring Saturday my younger brother and I slid onto the bench seat of my dad’s 1960 Chevy truck and …
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After COVID, Are You Convinced You Want Things to Go Back to Normal?
Reading Time: 4 minutes When will things go back to normal? Google that question and you find nearly two billion results. Everyone is wondering …
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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 Blessing the Work of our Hands
Reading Time: 3 minutes My first job at eleven years old was manning a massive industrial lawnmower and cutting the huge lawn for …
Praying Like a Child: A Childlike Prayer for You
Reading Time: 3 minutes Philip Yancey’s book Prayer: Does It make Any Difference? opens with this: “When a doctoral student at Princeton asked, …
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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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What Is the Right Way to Pray?
Reading Time: 5 minutes The last time I saw Isabelle alive she was in the hospital after a heart attack. She was in …
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. …