Journal

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast “Center of Attention Without Being Seen”. That’s a line I use with couples when they’re deciding whether I’m the right officiant for their wedding. I tell them I have the toughest job of anyone on their wedding day. Tougher than the coordinator, the caterer, the photographer, the videographer and … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Gratitude Reciprocates. I didn’t fully understand that until the day she stopped me at the counter of a small Route 66 diner and said, “I’ve been hoping I’d see you again.” It was one of those places with chrome trim and a mechanic shop next door. The kind of diner … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Spring Is Coming I Can Feel It started at one of those cold cement tables outside my local Dunkin’. I had my favorite coffee in hand, the kind that tastes familiar and steady, and I was sitting there lost in thought. Bills. Health. The state of the world. The … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Because He Knew I Didn’t came to me at a diner counter on an ordinary afternoon. Nothing dramatic. No thunder from heaven. Just coffee, clinking plates, and a man a few stools down who sounded uncomfortably familiar. He wasn’t loud in a reckless way. He was loud in a … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Your Own Devotional is not something I set out to write. It wasn’t a strategy or a brand plan. It was a sentence spoken in the front seat of our car while we were driving to a wedding in San Diego. Mary had just finished listening to an episode … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast The Power of Listening showed up during a packed lunch hour when the only open seat in the diner happened to be the one next to me. Plates were clattering, orders were flying, and the counter felt more like a bus station than a place to rest. That’s when … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast What God Hands You is something I’ve been thinking about every time I hear someone say their prayers went unanswered. I’ve said it myself. We all have. We picture a finished thing when we pray. A solution. A miracle. A cake already frosted and cooling on the counter. But … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Seeing Past the Look happened in a diner, the kind with vinyl booths and coffee that never quite tastes the same twice. The bell on the door rang and in walked a woman who didn’t fit the room. Her hair was stringy and oddly colored, her skin a canvas … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Dropping the Stone came to me standing somewhere I never expected to feel so quiet inside. Four thousand feet above the canyon floor, my feet planted on a glass skywalk, the world falling away beneath me. The view was overwhelming, but it was not fear that settled in. It … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Rule 66 kindness is not loud. It does not announce itself with signs or slogans. Most of the time, it looks like slowing down when everyone else is rushing past. It looks like noticing what is right in front of you and deciding not to look away. I believe … Read more