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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.

Fly on, Thunderbird, Fly & the Quiet Riot in My Soul

Sep 26, 2024 | anxiety, Attitude, Change, Christian Living, Ecclesiastes, Featured, Freedom, Fulfillment, Hope, Humility, Identity, Life Seasons, Mental Health, Peace, Personal Growth, Philippians, Testimony, Thankfulness, Trials, Wellness

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...

A Community’s Legacy of Change

Oct 10, 2022 | Change, Community, Culture, Featured, Fulfillment, Identity, Next, Stewardship

I recently sat on the outside patio of the Auburn, Indiana Starbucks, pondering historical legacy in the context of community. Many years ago, as a teenager, this very spot might have been where I experienced the first garlicy joys of Fazoli's breadsticks. Before...

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.

The Freedom Gained Through Forgiveness

Dec 29, 2021 | big-picture, Change, Christian Living, Colossians, Ephesians, Forgiveness, Freedom, Fulfillment, Grace, Humility, Matthew, Mental Health, Obedience, Old Testament, Personal Growth, Scripture

Withholding Forgiveness enslaves all involved. Free others AND YOURSELF of the bitter shackles that hold you back.

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...

A restless spirit can resemble a stirring ache in the soul. It’s a longing desire that must be pointed in the direction of God, who is compelling us toward a long-term pursuit of Him.

Understanding and Responding to the Stirring Ache of a Restless Spirit

Dec 28, 2021 | anxiety, Calling, Change, Christian Living, Contentment, Discernment, Faith, Featured, Freedom, Fulfillment, God's Ordering, Identity, Leadership, Learn, Life Seasons, Listening Up, Mental Health, Obedience, Personal Growth, Purpose, Resolve, Revelation, Shaping, YLU18, YLU18-Patience

Several times in life, I’ve diagnosed myself as having a restless spirit. I've often thought it indicative of a compulsion to do something creative. Other times, I've felt it as an awareness that mighty life changes are afoot. Sometimes, I've found seasons of...

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...

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