Truth and Reality One of my goals this year is to read every Pulitzer Prize fiction award winner of the last decade. A great story has become a reprieve from my normal nonfiction reading. It allows me to get lost in a world that is not my own. Often, I find the characters compellingly familiar […]

“But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33‬) ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬Drinking the Living Water Last year, I completed the 30 Day Word Before World Challenge. It changed my heart, which in turn changed my life. I got into the habit of seeking time with […]

Half-Empty Journals When my parents were planning to move from our childhood home, my mom called and asked me to come help her sort through some of the old things I had stored there. We had a blast walking down memory lane and reliving my teenage years as we looked through photos and folded old […]

A Time to Remember Several years ago, I found myself spending an afternoon in a very different way than I had planned. I’d come to my desk trying to find something I just couldn’t seem to track down. In the midst of searching every nook and cranny of the desk, I opened one little door […]

Journaling to Remember We humans are a forgetful people. Our God is faithful and true to His word, and oftentimes we say we believe this, but as the hymn “Come Thou Fount” states, we are “prone to wander.” A life of happenstance is much easier to us than one of intentionality and purpose. And yet […]