Being About The Journey

We learn the most when life is hard. Comfort asks nothing of us, so we drift and postpone the hard questions. Hardship stops you cold. It strips away what is inessential, and in the quiet that follows, you finally see yourself honestly. Trials are not just obstacles, they are teachers. Loss shows […]

“We are travelers. This world is not our destination but a bridge to eternity.” – Al-Ghazali Life is matter that woke up and became aware. It feeds on energy, heals itself, and makes more of itself. We are the part of the universe that can see itself. Life takes its shape each […]

The greatest gift mankind has ever received from God is free will — free to make choices, free to do good or do wrong. It is greater than life or intelligence itself, because without choice, neither would have meaning. If we could not choose, we could not love. Love that is programmed is […]

We get the starting point in life backwards almost every time. Instead of starting by changing ourselves, we start by trying to change everyone else. We notice what our partner, our coworker, our neighbor, or the other side is doing something wrong long before we notice the same little habit in ourselves. It just feels […]

We all grieve something in life, carrying something tender and unfinished. Sometimes it’s bad news from the doctor that rewrites your day in an instant. Sometimes it’s watching someone you love slow down, forget a little more, or struggle in a way you can’t fix. And sometimes it’s a living loss — someone who is […]

It’s time to stop searching so hard and just allow things to happen in your life. For as long as you have lived, good and bad events have just shown up. You didn’t put in any effort at all — friendships, opportunities, losses, turns in the road — they just happened. They arrived on their […]

Risk can be better than feeling regret. I think about all the events I didn’t get involved with for whatever reason — a conversation I didn’t start, a trip I didn’t take, a chance I talked myself out of. In the moment, fear felt like wisdom. What stays with you isn’t the failure. […]

We know life will bring both mountaintops and valleys, and that we are meant to accept the good and the bad as they come. Yet there are moments when the hard part is more than we want to bear, a tough pill to swallow no matter how much faith we have. None of us likes […]

Thoughts about life and pleasing God surround me today. The need to please the Father is front and center in my thoughts. It occurred to me that repentance begins the moment you stop defending what God is asking you to surrender. Read that again. It rarely starts with tears or dramatic confession. It starts […]

Our lives are built on a structure of common sense. We didn’t learn it from a book, we learned how to live when we were kids — at the kitchen table, in the yard, watching our parents. You don’t take more than you need, you return what you borrow in better shape, you look both […]