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Ending My Purposeful Pause from Blogging and More

Jun 19, 2026 | Attitude, big picture, Change, Life Seasons, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Purpose, Trials

Growth often requires a purposeful pause. A few years ago, I stepped away from writing online to focus on some massive shifts in my professional, personal, and civic life—from stepping into an exciting new season leading an incredible Business Intelligence team to finally drafting a historical fiction novel two decades in the making. I’m returning to the keyboard with a more grounded perspective on community, leadership, faith, and resilience.

The Coming New Digital Hell

Jun 23, 2023 | big picture, Change, Culture, Darkness, Featured, Hell, Parenting, Regret, Trials

Many technophobes experience a personal digital hell on a daily basis. But, fast forward 100 years to a fully digitized society. Physical newspapers and magazines have ceased to exist. Books are all nestled within the Applazon Cloud by monopolizing the rights when the...

This Blog Post goes against everything you're told about blogging to build a platform

Welcome to My Last “Blog Post”

Sep 5, 2022 | Attitude, big picture, Featured, Inspiration, Next, Personal Growth, Purpose, Revelation, Taking Risks

Have you noticed I don’t post on my blog at 1Glories all that often any longer? Here’s why: it became a distraction. If you’ve ever blogged and tried to do so, you know that chasing visits, clicks, optimizing for search and such is exhausting! The blogger has to have...

When Being Teachable Takes More Humility than Smarts

Jan 3, 2022 | Attitude, big picture, Change, Discernment, Featured, Humility, Identity, Integrity, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Proverbs, Psalms, Shaping, Wisdom, Work Life

Early in my career, an email changed my life by helping me realize I was unteachable. Thankfully, I took it to heart and have grown more than I ever would have had it not been sent.

I don’t have it all together. Drawing on Paul’s letter to the church of Philipi, we can see that that’s okay, because none of us do. It’s how we move forward that matters.

Why You Don’t Have it All Together and What You Can Do About it

Dec 30, 2021 | big picture, Cast Your Line Toward the Future, Discernment, Faith, Fulfillment, Grace, Hope, Leadership, Listening Up, Paul, Personal Growth, Shaping, Taking Risks, Work Life, YLU17

I like to think I have it all together. There are times, though, where I’m completely fractured and anything but. That may be why I am fascinated by stories that have highly flawed people in them. It keeps me grounded and mindful that I too am highly flawed. It’s more...

In life, you will be challenged to make comebacks. It's important to know you are never too far lost or too far gone.

What the Bible Says About Making Comebacks

Dec 29, 2021 | adversity, big picture, Change, Discernment, Faith, Featured, Fulfillment, Galatians, Go from Low to Glow, Grace, Habakkuk, Hebrews, Hope, Inspiration, James, Leadership, Life Seasons, Mental Health, Personal Growth, providence, Purpose, Romans, Shaping, Sin, Stress, The Potter, Trials, Tweetable, Wisdom

God is a God of Comebacks. I know this to be true. You see, when I first wrote this post back in 2016, I really wondered if I could stage a comeback, or if I was done for. I was down and out, feeling very much a failure. Emotionally spent and clinging to hope, I asked...

What a messed up world Jesus came to save and restore! And yet, lost in “keep Christ in Christmas” is a broader purpose and one that is as real today as it was then. God may seem “silent” at times, though he is always at work. Best of all, he is with us!

Our Messed Up World and That Time Jesus Came to an Anxious, Waiting World

Dec 25, 2021 | 1Glories, 2 Corinthians, anxiety, big picture, big-picture, Born Again, Change, Christian Living, Culture, Daniel, Elijah, Faith, Featured, Fulfillment, Grace, Hope, Hosea, Inspiration, Isaiah, Let Anxiety be Your Teacher, Listening Up, Living Hope, Love, Luke, Malachi, Matthew, Mental Health, Revelation, Sin, Wisdom, YLU17

Lost in the demands to “keep Christ in Christmas” and the requests to “remember the reason for the season” is a broader purpose: hope for a messed up world. You see, the Old Testament ends with a prophesy through Malachi. He was one of several prophets who tried...

Spiritual warfare is very real. We must therefore pursue of broader discipleship so we can stand firm in our faith while in a world that wants to call us guilty as we are fulfilling a divine calling.

Not Giving Up… Even When the Universe Hates You

Nov 29, 2021 | 1 Peter, big picture, big-picture, Change, Christian Living, Culture, Discernment, Discipleship, Faith, Featured, Freedom, Fulfillment, James, Life Seasons, Mental Health, Obedience, Personal Growth, Purpose, Trials

My unofficial hiatus might be construed as me giving up. And truth be told, I considered it. Not so much as "giving up" but more like "moving on" to a new season. Back in 2019, as I was finishing my study of Edward's resolutions, I was mired in a personal crisis,...

With a Rebel Yell… She Cried

Feb 1, 2021 | 1 Samuel, big picture, big-picture, Change, Culture, Ezekiel, Featured, Freedom, Fulfillment, Hell, Humility, Identity, Idolatry, Mental Health, Old Testament, Psalms, Romans, Scripture, Sin, Worship

In 2017, shortly after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, I wrote a post called "The Great American Stalemate will Show Who we Really Are." Parts of it were sort of "off" but much of it turned out to be (sadly) prophetic. Most notably, coming out of that...

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