The Plan

What do you want for your birthday? Last year I knew exactly what I wanted … what I needed. I had been thinking about it for months, but for some reason a lump in my throat and a pool of tears [...]

Who knew we could break on so many levels … and simultaneously, too? My heart broke when my father died last summer. It’s a selfish sort of break because the brokenness doesn’t apply to him. He’s [...]

  The world is looking more colorful right about now. Blossoms and blooms in their vivacious variety are raising up and giving glory to God. They seem to escape from the dirt and darkness to [...]

We arrive at the hospital when it’s dark … and we leave when it’s dark. And from arrival to departure we feel and see dark weight and worry. The weight and worry stands in elevators, sits in [...]

A single pink pearl … a salmon egg. It is small, fragile and without fish form … yet it holds the potential to become king. A king salmon. A chinook. The life cycle of this fish is incredible and [...]

We were finishing our hike to a whimsical waterfall when we came across this: And immediately it reminded me of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Some of my children tumbled right down the [...]

Black igneous rocks jutted out of the sand, and though I thoughtlessly considered them just a harsh contrast against the ocean landscape … the children thoughtfully considered them an [...]

Back in high school, my seminary teacher taught that if we pray for patience, we’ll receive opportunities to be patient. That didn’t sound too appealing to me, so I made a mental note not to pray [...]

Grandfathers, father figures, fathers-in-law, fathers of our church family, fathers of our children, fathers of our bodies and the Father of our spirit … they are all teaching us about the role [...]

I’m in Costco – kidless. That’s a holiday for me, so I take time strolling aisles. I even pick up one lone sample – which feels awesome. I always feel too guilty to grab myself a sample after [...]