beingaboutthejourney

I really think I’m beginning to sound like a broken record, but here’s another reminder. It’s important, so here it is. There’s no dress rehearsal for this life. You get one run, one set of years, one chance to be who you are in the world. Life is a one-time deal, not a draft you […]

During the past few years, millions of illegal aliens came to our country supposedly searching for a better life. That is the story we are told to justify it, that they are just hardworking people looking for opportunity and a chance to build something better for their families. And while that may be true for […]

One minute you are looking at empty hands, wondering how the bills will get paid, how the health scare will turn out, how the loneliness will lift. The pantry feels bare, the heart feels bare. We have all lived in that minute where faith feels thin because need feels so loud, and where you start […]

Every morning I spend quiet time trying to draw closer to God, but sometimes doubts fill my mind and I have questions. I’ve learned that examining my connection with God is not failure, it is how the connection grows. Faith becomes real when I pause to honestly ask where I stand with Him. […]

You’ve spent enough time blaming yourself for things that were mostly out of your control. The timing of other people’s choices, the way you were raised, the opportunities that never arrived, the losses that came without warning. You carried them as if you should have prevented them, as if more effort or more worry on […]

We all try to do the best we can in this life. The truth is our lives can become routine. Behind every tired smile at the grocery store, every short temper, every quiet act of kindness, there is someone carrying a weight we don’t see. We make choices with incomplete information, with old wounds and […]

A few days ago I was texting with a friend and we fell into a conversation about how decision making in our senior years feels different now. It isn’t that we have lost the ability to decide, it’s that the frame around every decision has changed. When time feels abundant you can afford detours. When […]

Who would have ever thought that American citizens would feel like they have to guard their words, their beliefs, their personal feelings out of fear of being called out or even censored. There was a time when we spoke freely at the kitchen table, at work, over lunch, or at the ballgame, because we knew […]

Every person on earth faces challenges. I used to think of them as interruptions getting in the way of my plan. I now understand they were not interruptions at all, they were the plan. Health, money, family, work, none of us are spared. So the real question is not if trouble will come, but what […]

To get through each day, having the love of God in our lives is so important. It’s not an extra blessing we add on when things go well, it’s the strength that holds us when things do not. Every day brings its own weight — health concerns, worries about family, the quiet moments when the […]

Being About The Journey

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