Loss: Picking Up the Pieces When Life Wrecks You
The dream is shattered The path hazy The end uncertain. And I am wrecked. How to go forward when retreat seems the balm, How to take one step when I’m laid [Read more...]
Peace
Playing it Safe: Chasing The Lie That Prevents Peace
I sit on the lush creek bank listening to the roaring mountain stream. The mountain cabin with smoke thinly trailing from the chimney, is backlit by the rising sun which chases away the chill. Taking [Read more...]
What Keeps You Up At Night? Calming Your Fears Before They Conquer You
The terror was real. My heart raced as I lay frozen in a semi-aware state of consciousness. Unable to stop them, the night terrors of my West Texas childhood were infrequent, but seared into my [Read more...]
Be Still my Anxious Heart: Finding Peace When the World Robs You
All morning I had it. That unsettled feeling. The one that is a cross between anxiety and worry. I couldn’t put my finger on it. It was just there, hovering and squeezing. I threw myself [Read more...]
How to Let Them Go: A Parents Hardest Task
As you let them go… The last one is the hardest. Tiny shoes, tiny backpacks, Eyes that shine with excitement or eyes that shy with fear It matters not. The hard is in the parting, [Read more...]
God’s Purpose: Are We Who He Wants Us To Be?
It was a beauty, Sleek and shiny, Polished to perfection, Not a scratch or a blemish to be seen. Yet in it’s state of perfect preservation, it never got to really be a car. It had become a [Read more...]
Watch Out…Life is Going to Throw You a Curve
I hadn’t been this way in years. All I remembered was the barren desolation. I’d forgotten the stark beauty. Flat, straight and smooth Lonely and alone. A road that seems to [Read more...]
When Fear Paralyzes and We Forget Who is in Charge
I could see it in her eyes, large, brown and wide with fear. Chai Latte in hand, blueberry muffin devoured, I was enjoying a relaxing morning on the breezy rooftop in T-Town (Tulsa). The summer [Read more...]
Wading Through Troubled Waters: How To Refresh Your Soul
I learned when I was about 10. My Daddy taught me. We taught those boys when they were even younger. I remember now...the secret is in the stone. The fun in the search and the importance of [Read more...]
The Constant Battle: Kicking Worry to the Curb
The view is spectacular, thirty-thousand feet above home. The sun creates the illusion of pristine snowfields Abruptly ending in a dark abyss below. As we fly over the darkness, [Read more...]