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There is a sense of confusion in the air today that is hard to ignore. Things that were once settled and self-evident — that men and women are different, that neighbors should look out for one another — are now treated as open for debate, or worse, as prejudice. Most people are not angry because […]

Anyone can hear you when you’re loud. Laughter, anger, excitement, distress, they announce themselves. You don’t need to know someone well to hear them when they are speaking at full volume, because the world is built to respond to noise. Quiet is different. Quiet is not the absence of feeling, it is often the concentration […]

The question of whether Americans are happy used to be answered by looking at one’s own life. Family, work, health, and community set the scale. Happiness was local and personal, measured against your own past experiences more than against strangers. But today online platforms have replaced that local scale with a global one. Every day […]

Each morning, if God wills it, we wake up with two things to accomplish. We have needs, the things we must do to get through the day. And we have plans, the things we hope to do with the time we are given. Because of that, our days start to look the same. We wake […]

Life can be difficult. We’ve all done things we regret that we have to live with. Words spoken in anger that we cannot take back, opportunities we neglected, kindness we withheld when it was needed. Regret is part of being human, and it lingers because we know better now than we did then. We carry […]

We all seem to be getting tired. Not the kind of tired that a good night’s sleep fixes, but a deep weariness that comes from years of constant fighting. You can hear it in conversations at the grocery store, and in the way people just shake their heads and walk away instead of engaging. We […]

While I am still active in this life, I have a unique opportunity to let my spirit practice for the next one. For a long time I thought the right response was to hold on tighter as time went on. I see it differently now. The days ahead are not just time to fill, they […]

These are interesting times, and I believe we all must yell, holler, and scream what we believe while we still have the breath and the freedom to do it. Silence has never saved a country, a family, or a soul. If you believe something is true and worth keeping, you owe it to yourself to […]

I heard a quote the other day that got my attention. It said, “When the Devil wants you to look back at your past, there’s something in your future he doesn’t want you to see.” That sentence reframes regret as a distraction rather than just an emotion. It suggests you are not looking back simply […]

The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead, in the days following, we emerged stronger and more unified. That Tuesday morning 25 years ago began with almost incomprehensible horror, with skylines changed in an instant and thousands of innocent lives taken. The architects of that violence believed that fear would fracture […]

Being About The Journey

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