Journal

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

Watch or listen to Episode 24: Vodcast | Podcast Grateful heart giving is not something we usually talk about in diners like the one I found in Barstow. It was early morning, the kind where the sun looks half-awake and the desert hasn’t decided if it wants to be hot or merciful. The diner sat … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast  | Podcast Today is your chance to do better and I needed that reminder more than I care to admit. Yesterday had its way with me. I let impatience cut in line, I let worry chew on the corners of my faith, and I let a conversation end in silence when … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast  | Podcast  Kindness takes the wheel in ways most people never notice. I used to think kindness was simple. A smile here, a door held open, a quiet gesture in a loud world. It took a long stretch of miles to learn that kindness can unsettle people who have forgotten how … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast I see you and thank you! Some people chase headlines. Others quietly change the world from their kitchen tables with a pair of scissors, a spool of thread, and a heart that can’t sit still. She’s one of those people. The kind who doesn’t need a platform or applause, just a … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Feed Somebody is more than a slogan, it is a way of seeing. During the Christmas season last month somewhere along US 95, I pulled into a grocery store parking lot to drop off a few cans for the local food pantry that I had heard about on my local radio … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Finding common ground used to feel simple. A handshake. A neighborly wave. A shared laugh over burnt toast in a diner booth. These days it feels like every conversation carries a fuse. Even the quiet places, the ones where people once came to escape the noise, now have televisions shouting from … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast The strength to endure a difficult life is not something most of us ask for when we bow our heads the first time. We usually pray for relief, for answers, for the road to smooth out and the ache to ease. I know I have. I have asked God more than … Read more