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when it looks all wrong

about a month ago i started my second of three years in a course to become a spiritual director. it wasn’t until a couple of years ago that i had even heard the term much less been to one. but as i heard what they did and then of the program to get you ready, i...

perspective is everything

have you ever noticed a scenario something like…2 different people going through the same set of circumstances. one person is joyful and full of life regardless or perhaps they aren’t happy but they are surely not broken. the other person is bitter and...

a couple of rats and a bucket of water

i talk a lot about, think a lot about, rest in the beauty that is hope. sometimes hope feels ever present and easy to walk in. other days walking in hope feels much more like walking in mud up to your thighs. the smallest amount of hope is more powerful than anything...

more than a haircut

i have had a lot of haircuts in my life and they have all just been haircuts. some have been more fun than others. some have been more colorful than others. but hair has just been hair. until it wasn’t. a month or so ago i was sitting in cuppies and joe. i love...

waiting for crumbs

it is so much easier to see the lack when you are surrounded by someone else that has the abundance you lack. maybe it’s money or food or community or whatever the thing might be. something i have noticed lately is the lack of touch in my life. being single can...

power can never win love

i am currently reading “Disappointment with God” by Philip Yancy. it has been a while since i ready anything by Yancy but it is proving to be quite the incredible book. it is amazing to me how much perspective change change the human heart while the...

it’s been a while

its been a few months since i last wrote. when i got back from visiting my family for three weeks i jumped hard into building my business. if you haven’t ever started a business from scratch its really hard work. for months there have been few and far between...

when i grow up…

while i was in seattle, i got to hang with some of the coolest people i know. i haven’t spent a ton of time with people in general in 2015 which was on purpose for the sake of growth and healing but i’ll tell you what…it was nice to be around like...

[you] complete me

it is so interesting to me that no matter where i travel or where i live, conversation about community always comes up. people are talking about the community they have or the community they want. community looks like friends or family or spouses. but it is all the...

i don’t know

have you ever been at a fork in the road and you don’t know which way to go? this job or that? move here or there? go to this event or that one? i find in the lives of so many that this is such a common theme. they don’t know what God is saying or doing....