Category: Moments, Thoughts, Life


  • We memorized this as kids, along with the Books of the Bible, and dozens of other verses. The 23rd Psalm is a multi-use scripture. It’s comforting in difficult times, encouraging in good times, and calming in fearful times.  Recently I learned some facts about sheep that has brought new light to this old standard: Sheep facts…

  • The Big Black Inner Tube

    As a teen, my friends and I tubed down the Crystal River. It was a summertime favorite. We’d make the forty-five minute drive, park our cars in the gravel parking lot, pay our fee, get on a big green bus and be taken up the river.  We excitedly exited the bus and made our way…

  • Content

    I’ve had a ton of self-discovery these past few weeks. Thanks to a book titled Dream Big, I no longer feel like there’s something wrong with me cause I love being involved in a bunch of things at one time.  Thanks to a small book study with five old friends, I feel more connected than…

  • Forty years – how did we make it through 40 years? When I look at the number ten – looks like a very nice number, twenty looks a bit fanciful, thirty is whimsical, but forty looks solid. I googled the meaning of the number 40 – the number 40 generally symbolizes a period of testing,…

  • Pinballs in my Brain

    Definition of Connectedness People with the StrengthsFinder theme of Connectedness believe that everything happens for a reason. They have the unique ability to ‘connect the dots’ between what is happening in the here and now with deep personal meaning. If you share the StrengthsFinder characters of Connectedness with me, you know how it can screw…

  • Absolute on the Rocks

    I grew up in a world that was primarily black and white. It consisted of many lists of absolutes. There were wrong and rights, goods and bads, dos and don’ts. We lived by the absolutes and we judged other’s accordingly.  As a young adult, the lines between what was once black and white began to…