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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Meaning
Finding God Beyond the Selfie: A Prayer for Seeing god in others
Reading Time: 2 minutes Invisible God: When we seek your face, Your eyes pooled with love, grace, wisdom, and tears, For recognition of our …
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How to Thrive on Fathers Day Despite Suffering Serious Father Trauma
Reading Time: 5 minutes Father’s Day by it’s very nature is not all that jazzy of a holiday. Dad’s are really hard to buy …
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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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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 …
In the Midst of Pain, How Can You Be Sure God Loves You?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Silence is often the language of love.
What I Want to Tell My Mom Today
Reading Time: 3 minutes We were all amazed you hacked heaven out of a patch of dirt between a parking lot filled with second-hand cars and the apartment building you managed filled with second-hand people. You loved both the roses and the people nearly equally. I don’t know if you know, that rose garden is still there, seventeen years after you last fertilized it. Thank you, Mom. You reflected a beautiful but hardscrabble God to us in that rose garden and in your very life! I love you.
Are You Afraid and Lonely? Pray!
Reading Time: 5 minutes Prayer is to our relationship with God as sex is to a relationship with a spouse. Like sex, prayer can skim along the surface and be about what you get out of it. Or it can be intimate, vulnerable, passionate, diving deep into the mystery of two becoming one.
Finding Your True Worth and Identity in a Word
Reading Time: 5 minutes You and I suffer the same snake bite. We question the worth spoken into us by our Creator. By doubting our original design from God, we lost touch with God as Creator. We search for validation in ill-written dictionaries, which cry: find your worth in your accomplishments, your bathroom mirror, your bank account, your philosophy, your social media likes.