Journal

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Grace on the move isn’t a sprint toward recovery. It’s the quiet drive home after the storm, when the sky is still heavy, but the light begins to show through. This reflection is part two of the three-part series called “Living the Mission Statement”; stories about what it means … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Faith in motion begins in the quiet before dawn when the world feels half asleep and the road waits without answers. This reflection is part one of a three-part series called “Living the Mission Statement”; three stories about what it means to live “God handed me the keys again … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Pie for Strangers is a Route 66 Thanksgiving story about kindness, gratitude, and sharing dessert when thanksgiving dinner on the road brought forty travelers together in a Flagstaff café. The smell of turkey and coffee met us at the door when Mary and I stepped into a small café … Read more

Watch or listen to this journal: YouTube Vodcast | Podcast The Mission Statement was born, like most good things, over coffee. I was halfway through a lukewarm refill when a businessman at the next stool looked up from his laptop and asked what I did for a living. I told him I was a chaplain, … Read more

Watch or listen to this journal: YouTube Vodcast | Podcast Staying true at the bottom sounds like a strange kind of goal in a world that tells us to keep climbing. Yet lately, I’ve realized that the higher some people rise, the harder it is to hear the still, small voice that speaks through everyday … Read more

Watch or listen to this journal: YouTube Vodcast | Podcast Facing the storm is not our first instinct. Most of us try to steer around the dark sky and wait it out from a safer distance. Out on the plains there is a different lesson. Cows run with the storm and stay in the rain … Read more

Watch or listen to this journal: YouTube Vodcast | Podcast Upright mobile and blessed has become my everyday answer when someone asks how I am doing. It comes out so naturally that I barely think about it, but it is more than a catchphrase. It is muscle memory. Every word in that little line carries … Read more

Watch or listen to this journal: Vodcast | Podcast Being seen and heard might sound simple, but most of us spend a lifetime craving both. I learned that again this morning while sitting in a quiet lab chair, waiting for my turn to get blood drawn. The walls hummed with the sound of centrifuges, and … Read more

Keep moving forward is what I tell myself when the morning feels heavier than the coffee. The neon at a little Route 66 diner flickered awake as I pushed open the door, and the bell over the frame gave a tired hello. A couple of ranch hands argued gently over who was buying, the kind … Read more

Watch or listen to this journal: YouTube Vodcast | Podcast Faith and Money, Great topic! It started, like most stories do, over coffee. The kind that comes in a heavy white mug, sitting on a diner counter somewhere between hope and habit. I was talking with a man who called himself a social media expert. … Read more