I’ve tried to quit volunteering for meals on wheels four times. Then I end up changing my mind and stay on the rotation. My company sponsors a route for Meals on Wheels delivering meals each Friday to those that are in need. A group of us from the office divide up the weeks throughout the

Set aside five, ten or twenty minutes to be completely silent. Every day. No phone, no book, no podcast, no music. Just silence. This practice has helped not only heal my mind, but also remind me that time is not my own. I’m an avid idea-seeker. Always a couple books going at the same time.

We go to this remote cabin in Colorado pretty much every year. It’s incredible. The beauty of the place is unreal. One of my favorite things is actually what it lacks: cell phone reception. This means when we are away, we really are away. There’s a spot on the road where the bars of reception

When I was a kid I used to love the orange flavored Tic Tacs. A few months ago I was telling my kids, “hey just take a chill pill” (a consistent phrase from my childhood- both on the giving and receiving end). I got to thinking about carrying around a box of orange Tic Tacs

“Jesus was very clear about the Kingdom of God, but most scholars argue that Jesus was deliberately quiet and provocatively and intentionally silent on the raging political issues of his day; and that his silence was a greater statement than anything he ever could have said.” – John Mark Comer in A Community of Peacemakers

Proverbs 27:17 says that iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. I feel encouraged and relieved that iron sharpens another piece of iron by two things: simply being iron and simply being close enough. We don’t have to know all the things to say, contain all the wisdom, or even have the answers… we

Lots of people have been coming back to a C.S. Lewis quote from times during WWII: “This is the first point to be made and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find

Prepare your work outside and make it ready for yourself in the field; afterwards, then, build your house. Also translated as: First plant your fields; then build your barn. Sounds intuitive but I think switching up the order of these two things can create some issues. Sometimes we build our house and then try to

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. I mean what an audacious move: in the confrontation of an enemy… not to pull out a sword, not to assemble the armies, not to barter with a stack of cash. Nope. The enemy assembled and ready for attack… and the Leader gives

For the king trusts in the Lord, and through the lovingkindness of the Most High he will not be shaken. I find it incredible and relieving to know that a king can be kept from being shaken through God’s lovingkindness. Not God’s power, strength, dominion, or even God-likeness. Nope. God’s lovingkindness, also translated as faithfulness