Three or four times a week I wake to a 5:00 am alarm, crawl out of bed and drive a couple miles down the road to work out with my buddy Krista. We hate the early morning part but we love the talking part. We both have two kids in college and one still at… Continue reading A Friend’s Funny Name
I drove home through the back roads this morning from a “glampout” at a friends cabin just over the Missouri line. Over train tracks and bridges and even a few gravel roads. Rain clouds were gathering in the west as I sipped coffee from a Casey’s cup, choosing to drive a few miles under the… Continue reading A Decade of Walking
“Our worst mistakes occur when we mistakenly think we don’t need anyone else’s thoughts.” This was the bottom line message of a month-long series our church just finished called Dear Me. It was simple yet brilliant. Each Sunday 4 or 5 members were invited to share a letter they had written to themselves, starting with high… Continue reading Dear Me Stories
Parenting is a strange process. You spend 18 or so years preparing children, parts of your own soul, to go out into the world and be independent thinkers and dreamers. And then you wake up one day and realize they have, and it’s absolutely terrifying. Control? Gone. At some point children wander across… Continue reading A Daughter’s Dream
“God rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.” Psalm 18:24 (The Message) Easter is this weekend. We celebrate the climactic point in our salvation story. Jesus conquered death. He arose victorious and what we do with THAT story, defines who we are. To believe, or not… Continue reading Faith Story Seeds
The Story Place 