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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Hope
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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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 …
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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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 …
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.
Are You Burned Out on Religion and Life?Join Jesus!
Reading Time: 4 minutes I’m rhythmically impaired. I stumbled (literally) on this fact in Navy Boot Camp. Marching was the approved way to …
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