Journal

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

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Rule 66 never began as a campaign or a slogan. It began with my mother. Her lessons came from an ordinary kitchen that always smelled of percolated coffee that she ground with a bright red hand cranked grinder. That space became my first classroom. I learned more about life … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Love came quietly that night without fanfare or bright lights. Just the steady rhythm of animals breathing, the scrape of straw, and a cry that split the silence of the world. God entered the story, not through a throne or a trumpet, but through a manger that smelled of … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Sharing your story of faith rarely feels grand while you are doing it. Most of the time it sounds like refilled coffee and a quiet voice, a table at dusk, the soft clink of a spoon, a truth that finally finds words. I have learned on Route 66 that … Read more