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Mom died a month ago. Reflecting on her life, I'm thankful she lived without regrets. She was hard to embarrass and realized that the pain of regret w...
To be broken by God is to be made useful. It’s to have your independence and need to control stripped away until all you have left to offer is a wil...
Everyone feels revulsion toward serial killers like the notorious Son of Sam, David Berkowitz. Berkowitz shot and killed six people and wounded...
I just got back from my seventh hike of the Camino de Santiago yesterday. One of the highlights for a peregrino (pilgrim) is arriving at the Cruz ...
Today I'm flying to the Dominican Republic, a place where I've experienced abundant life as a young man pursuing a dream, and also burnout along the w...
I've never been any good at stuffing Christmas stockings. This morning, I went to the salvage store to buy some stocking stuffers for Karen ...
My own messy life left me with two options: Cover it up - build some work-arounds that allow me to schlepp along. Go through the pain and see ...
This morning I woke up, began to pray and journal, and then thought, "I should get some tea going." So I went to the kitchen. Then I saw the raw veget...
Around the nation and in many parts of the world, people have begun the new year by fasting. God asks us to fast. Jesus said that his disciples would ...
Several years ago, my friend Steve had a job as a business executive. His slide into a life of drugs was breathtakingly quick. He used drugs and when ...
