That place where God finds you

I was at a water park with my family when our daughter – about 5-years old at the time – snuck off without us noticing.  Upon realizing that we were separated, I scanned a huge crowd of hundreds in my immediate area, feeling a wave of panic and of deep concern.  How...

The Tree

There wasn’t a game I played more often as a kid than a good, old-fashioned game of tag. I never wanted to be “It.” I just wanted to run from whoever was.   It was exhilarating and exhausting to have someone on your heels in hot pursuit, so long as you didn’t get...

What I’m About

I’m taking my first writing course. It’s online, and covers many practical topics from finding my writing voice to maximizing the effectiveness of a blog to authoring books. One assignment involves rewriting my “About Page” for garysjournal.com. As it currently reads,...

When you can’t keep up

I crashed. I couldn’t keep up. I was giving it all I had, but it wasn’t enough. Just six months after our move to Silicon Valley, I had allowed my schedule to get out of hand. I was struggling to maintain commitments and relationships and life in general. I hadn’t...