Broken Directions

It has been really cool to see the outpouring of encouragement to me through this blog. My desire has always been to give encouragement and point people… Read more “End of Year Review (Part II)”

I can barely believe that we are staring at the end of 2018 already. At the risk of sounding like an old person, this year has flown… Read more “End of Year Review”

Have you ever had a bad week? I mean a truly bad week. Did anything positive come out of it? Or did it just open the door… Read more “A Bad Week”

The strangest thing happened in the two nights ago. I woke up around three a.m. and my mind began to start processing. I was thinking about the… Read more “A real “Spark Plug!””

1 John 2:1 “My little children, I am writing you these things so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate… Read more “Rookie Move”

If you have been a parent for more than like five minutes, then you know bad days, maybe even weeks or years. As children get older, their… Read more “A possible reason for your bad day”

Jonah is one of the most intriguing books in the Bible to me. It almost doesn’t seem to have any redeeming qualities other than the Ninevites full… Read more “Jonah: excellent fish bait, terrible prophet”

I have been reading through the book of Romans and have been blown away by this letter to the church at Rome. It is hard to imagine… Read more “Hope Against Hope”

Today is the first birthday of my daughter Claire. It is hard to describe the emotions I feel about this crazy, crawling baby. It seems like just… Read more “Daughters: the most frightening of creatures.”

Two things that I have enjoyed most of my life: staying up late and sleeping in. I enjoy sleeping. I am definitely a second shifter by nature,… Read more “Never too old to change: chronicles of a sleeper”