When you can’t keep up

by | Oct 16, 2016 | Blog, Overwhelmed, Pause, Solitude, Vulnerable

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...

Windows Rolled Down

by | Oct 9, 2015 | Blog, Community, Old Ford, Truck, Vulnerable

I’ve lived in California for 3+ months and have yet to roll up my windows. When driving, and even when I park my truck on the street for the night, I leave the windows rolled down. One reason for this is environmental: The drought. I’ve woken up to roughly 90 days of...

R.O.A.D. – Job 42

by | Oct 23, 2012 | Uncategorized

The following 4-step process is loosely based on the ancient Spiritual Practice called “Lectio Divina” – simply meaning, “Sacred Reading.” It is a meditative way of reading smaller passages of Scripture. This approach to reading the Bible...

Buttonholes

by | Oct 16, 2012 | Uncategorized

I don’t know how to sew on a button, but give me needle and enough thread and I will figure out a way to reattach the button – albeit in beastly fashion. Perhaps more difficult than adding a button is making a buttonhole – creating a space through...

Dust

by | Oct 13, 2012 | Uncategorized

Psalm 103:14 – “For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are DUST.” Limitations. Boundaries. We are physically, emotionally, mentally – really in every way – only capable of so much. And certainly we are Spiritually held back by our...