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Freedom.
September 3, 2026
Freedom.
September 3, 2026

I was sitting in a favorite place Sunday afternoon…

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September 3, 2026
Steep.
August 11, 2026
Steep.
August 11, 2026

It’s not a hot tub; it’s painfully hot…

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August 11, 2026
Secret. Life.
August 4, 2026
Secret. Life.
August 4, 2026

Find this secret for your life from Walter Mitty…

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August 4, 2026
How Sweet It Is.
July 31, 2026
How Sweet It Is.
July 31, 2026

It’s the small daily choices for kindness…

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July 31, 2026
Fire & Rain.
July 23, 2026
Fire & Rain.
July 23, 2026

Let’s hold hands and take the plunge together…

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July 23, 2026
Friendship.
July 15, 2026
Friendship.
July 15, 2026

Better is a friend nearby than a brother far away…

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July 15, 2026
Direction.
July 7, 2026
Direction.
July 7, 2026

And I'll wait without you, with or without you…

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July 7, 2026
Belonging.
June 30, 2026
Belonging.
June 30, 2026

You know I believe it, but I still haven't found what I'm looking for…

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June 30, 2026
Freedom.
June 24, 2026
Freedom.
June 24, 2026

I want to run, I want to hide. I wanna tear down the walls that hold me inside…

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June 24, 2026
Orbit.
June 19, 2026
Orbit.
June 19, 2026

How’s your orbit with your father?…

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June 19, 2026
Ready?
June 10, 2026
Ready?
June 10, 2026

One of the crippling dysfunctions of a religious system gone bad…

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June 10, 2026
Co-pilot.
June 3, 2026
Co-pilot.
June 3, 2026

There is one great message to your life. Do you know what it is?

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June 3, 2026
Message.
May 26, 2026
Message.
May 26, 2026

There is one great message to your life. Do you know what it is?

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May 26, 2026
Primitive.
May 18, 2026
Primitive.
May 18, 2026

You are good. You are safe…

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May 18, 2026
Grieving.
May 12, 2026
Grieving.
May 12, 2026

Naming our sorrows helps us sense into our collective humanity…

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May 12, 2026
Resilient.
April 25, 2026
Resilient.
April 25, 2026

As the French say, C’est la vie…

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April 25, 2026
Third.
April 11, 2026
Third.
April 11, 2026

Reeling between political polarities…

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April 11, 2026
Visceral.
April 8, 2026
Visceral.
April 8, 2026

Your feet know what to do…

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April 8, 2026
Imagine.
April 3, 2026
Imagine.
April 3, 2026

“Songs of Faith” on tonight’s American Idol…

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April 3, 2026
Triumph.
March 31, 2026
Triumph.
March 31, 2026

How do we hold triumph without triumphalism?…

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March 31, 2026
Dying.
March 25, 2026
Dying.
March 25, 2026

We walked her dad across the threshold of death…

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March 25, 2026
Judgment.
March 3, 2026
Judgment.
March 3, 2026

To judge is human, to forgive divine.…

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March 3, 2026
Emptiness.
March 1, 2026
Emptiness.
March 1, 2026

Fasting sucks, but it helped me this weekend…

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March 1, 2026
Attachments.
February 28, 2026
Attachments.
February 28, 2026

This is the tension and paradox of Lent…

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February 28, 2026
Defaults.
February 26, 2026
Defaults.
February 26, 2026

Shed your stress default.…

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February 26, 2026
Shields.
February 21, 2026
Shields.
February 21, 2026

Shedding our self-protectiveness…

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February 21, 2026
Shed.
February 12, 2026
Shed.
February 12, 2026

For my birthday I bought myself a new mountain bike…

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February 12, 2026
Ebb & Flow.
February 6, 2026
Ebb & Flow.
February 6, 2026

Can you feel the shift?…

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February 6, 2026
Thrust.
January 29, 2026
Thrust.
January 29, 2026

Productivity is ultimately a spiritual matter.…

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January 29, 2026
Paradox.
January 25, 2026
Paradox.
January 25, 2026

We are not always comfortable with divine union.…

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January 25, 2026

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