This poem was written on September 11, 2001 as I watched the news reports from work. I was shocked, alarmed, saddened, and yet I had a new hope in a God who could save and comfort us all. ...
How to Let Go of an Old Career and Start Fresh
Inertia, while important in physics, isn’t especially helpful when one wants to start a new career after, say 15 or 20 years or more doing the same thing. The concept of inertia, commonly referred to as Newton’s first law, says, “An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in ...
Freedom in Anger
After a quick breakfast, I helped my kids locate their shoes and backpacks, then herded everyone into the garage to load into the minivan. For this one year only, all four of my kids attended the same school. My oldest was in fifth grade, second born in third grade, the third child was in ...
The Best 20 Minutes
You could take a power nap. You could scoot over to Starbucks to get coffee. You could even get one more load of laundry started, or maybe do the breakfast dishes. You could check your email or watch a couple of YouTube videos . . . but it wouldn't be the best 20 minutes of your day. ...
Whatever it Takes [poem]
It's easy to put work first, to put our family first, and sometimes to put our friends, ministries, and even ourselves first. What doesn't come easy is doing whatever it takes to put our faith first. This poem was inspired by my pastor's sermon on pursuing God in the New Year. ...
How to Navigate Change in the New Year
I hadn’t considered the transition into a new decade as being that important until people started asking me, ‘did you know that we just experienced the last full moon of the decade?’ and ‘what life accomplishments did you experience in the last decade?’ I hadn't considered how to navigate change in ...