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There was no rhyme or reason. No family history or health indication. What began as mild discomfort morphed into the discovery of a life-altering diagnosis. Then the battle. For life. For sanity. [...]

Have you ever stopped to consider the moments when you are at your very best? Times when you are "in the zone" creatively, physically, or spiritually? In these moments, the clouds part, sunlight [...]

To my eyes, the beach looked smooth and level. A day's rain had matted the sand down, condensing its normally deep, foot-swallowing layers into a flat and welcome walking surface. As I set my 20 [...]

"Wait for it..." Her words hung in the air as moments later the sun broke the horizon in a blazing orange burst that pushed the sky's darkness into full retreat. Minutes before, night ruled with [...]

C.S. Lewis describes hell, and all that is not heaven, as small because it cannot hold that which is heavenly. Lewis is trying to convey a sense of the magnitude of the Divine in contrast to the [...]

the distance, there to here is immense changes wrought along a journey we didn’t realize had begun change is subtle tiny adjustments, happening always altering space, time, heart like a Divine [...]

Did you ever see the movie, Rudy, starring Sean Astin as the unlikely hero of a University of Notre Dame football game in 1975?

Last week, as the polar vortex moved its icy fingers into our neighborhood, we found ourselves fighting with several maintenance issues in our home. Amid the cold and the snow, […]

The last thirty days have brought some challenges in our extended work family. Cancer has struck close to home in multiple places and we’ve watched those we work with, and care about, struggle with […]

Two parents and their teenage daughter sat together over breakfast in a hotel dining area. Eggs, bacon, toast…they ate quietly, watching television and occasionally commenting to one another. The [...]