What are you passionate about? We’ve all heard it time and time again: You will invest your time in your passions. Recently I’ve come to learn how my generation may be missing a key detail of what passion really means. When I think of what I’m passionate about – what fills me with purpose and excites…
Read MoreWe get more joy out of the hard-fought unforeseen successes than we ever could from the ones that everyone saw coming.
One very wise stranger
Always Good
Today feels somber and heavy. Perhaps it’s the never-ending cold grey skies that have lingered too long and the rain that sweeps across the ground with an air of melancholy. Or the saddening news of a bill that was passed in the late hours of the evening that hurts and dismays educators. Or the canceling…
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Writing… Again
These words were originally penned on January 4th, scrawled onto a yellow legal pad as I felt the floodgates open and words begin to bubble up like a spring. Then fear, and false humility, and a little bit of arrogance kept them on the paper. With strong encouragement by those who absolutely know me best,…
Read MoreI Am The Lord, Your God, And I Hear When You Call
The Lord, my God, He hears when I call out. He hears and He comforts. All the while, He already knows what’s ahead for me. But He joins me in the anxiety and the waiting and the fear and He supplies all that I need. There are so many times in my life where I…
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All Who Are Weary
“How can I be praying for you this week?” The realization of my current condition set in as that simple question was asked. It was intrusive. It required me to really reflect on how I was doing. My best friend had reached out to me, out of the blue, to let me know she saw…
Read MoreJust What We Needed, When We Needed It
Sometimes, you simply can not plan for the unexpected, no matter how certain you are of what’s coming.
Read MoreFasting From Social Media
Let me preface this post with this: social media is not always a bad thing. Sometimes it’s a really great thing! It’s probably how you found this blog, it’s how I have any readers at all, it’s how I know my best friend in Florida just graduated culinary school with Honors. Social Media has enabled…
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On Writing & Life
I want you to be challenged here. I want to be challenged here. I want large words with even larger meaning to cover these pages. I want to write from the deep place within me that commands that I have to.
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