Grief. It morphs. It swells. It shrinks. It just never seems to leave. … Six years ago today, it became a longtime friend of mine, meeting me inside a hospital room outside Indianapolis. There, my wife and I held a child we thought might finally be the long-awaited, new addition to our family. A […]
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“Nature knows no indecencies: man invents them.” — Mark Twain
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now we live in the between of your last breath here and your next breath there Written for a family who lost their husband, dad, friend to cancer today. The road’s been long, filled with hopes of all sorts and prayers of all kinds. And along the way, they were […]
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“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.” — George Washington Carver
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“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I like things to be wrapped up. Tidy. Complete. For there to be no remaining uncertainty or lingering questions. For there to be closure. That’s what I say at least. But when I’m honest, it’s not really closure that I seek. Rather, it’s the chance to get in the last word. It’s […]
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There’s a time between seasons where neither one exists. Where winter hasn’t fully passed and spring hasn’t fully sprung. I am there. In this dangling moment, stuck between a memory and a dream. Not moving forward and not falling back. Neither telling nor asking. Growing nor dying. I’m not sad or mad […]
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Fully present now. Not looking back or before. In this moment. Still.
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To all the hearts once beating together and now broken apart, I sit with you this Valentine’s Day. With full faith and abounding hope, my prayers are that you might know…despite the wounds, the fears, the anger, the sadness, the loneliness, the emptiness…that you are not alone. Someone’s ready to meet you right where […]
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“In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.” ― Brennan Manning Today, at the beginning of lent—a season of […]
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