A new year: I’ll strive for balance

“Live your best life: Find balance.” I’ve been told that happiness is achieved through the balance of rest and activity: each and every part choreographed in symmetrical alliance to one another. I’ve absorbed the notion that blessedness dangles between an...

Can you embrace the wilderness?

Sometimes my world feels comfortable, right, fitting. I am blessed beyond every measure and far beyond what I deserve: I have a pleasant home, loving family, deep friendships, fulfilling career, two parents married over five decades, extended family, a safe community,...

Quiet darkness for the unrest of the day

To-do lists, needs, deadlines, routines, necessaries all fight for the second hand of my clock. I push through toward the goals, the expectations set before me. There was a season when it felt like daily winds whipped across the great lake of my life stirring the...

Standing against storms

Have winds pushed against you? Power and resistance thrust back at me as I slipped out of my office to pick up lunch this week. Overwhelmed by an intriguing force of curiosity and risk, I drove straight to the beach a few blocks away. Gales traveling across a hundred...
Knit a little too tight?

Knit a little too tight?

Before you knew the world and before the world knew you, there was God. Your Creator. He created your inmost being, He knit you together. Ever have a day that unexpectedly unravels? No warning. No tug. But each inner thought unwinds the tightly woven yarn and the...