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Growth Patterns

Reflections on becoming who I want to be.

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What Is an Answered Prayer?

I didn't even want to speak the word "cancer" out loud...

The end of my imagination

is where God's begins

A Lesson in Rest

What I didn't expect from a 7-month sabbatical

You Can Just Talk to God

Am I getting what I asked for, or is prayer just changing me?

It Wasn't Christmas Without You

Dad was never one to risk the ice– at least when it came to fishing.

I Want to Raise Boys

Rambunctious little boys. Boys with scraped up knees and bruised feelings...

Relentless Optimism

The Best is Yet to Come

A Prayer for a Tuesday

Writing became a consistent habit in my spiritual life years ago, as I began to write out the prayers I struggled to articulate.

Why You Should Be Jumping in Frozen Lakes

A spiritual experience for the peer-pressured

Coming Home

A little romance in the everyday

The Blue Collar Boardroom

Lessons in leadership from around the dinner table

The Infinite More

A life coach told me one time that my saboteur was restlessness.

Too Many Fish in the Sea?

Dating Apps and The Paralysis of Choice

Friday Five – Michelin Star Mold, Need for Nuance, Luck & Love, Creative War and a new.shortcut

Five things I'm interested in this week

What Meditation Taught a New Yorker About Jesus

A mug of black coffee steaming and the sunrise peeking over the trees, I settled in for a quiet morning of reading.

Friday Five – Focusing a Scattered Mind, Bitcoin and Bros, Sports That Make You Live Longer, Learning to Love Meditation and Unfinished Books

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Friday Five – Breathtakingly Insipid Tennis Stars, Unscalable Community, New York Nostalgia (twice), An Ambitious Reading Update

Five things (most of which are essays or books) I'm interested in this week

Independence is Overrated

You can’t even call me a Childless Cat Lady.

Friday Five – Inspired by Kids, Texas Incarceration Rates, The Magic of Barton Springs, a Military Base Turned Art Installation and an Ambitious Reading List

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Mixed Feelings on a Non-Conventional Childhood

Learning to love being a weird little homeschool kid