A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for. (Attr. to John A. Shedd) I love good quotes. And good metaphors. And good quotes that are good metaphors are the best. Like this one. I love the metaphor of setting sail into a grand new adventure. Skimming off into the … More Brave Enough to Go
I don’t like crying in airports. Well, really, I don’t like crying anywhere anybody can see me. It feels uncomfortable and vulnerable and kind of embarrassing. But here I was, a puddle of tears in LAX — one of the busiest airports in California and, if Business Insider is accurate in their estimations, the fourth … More Brave Enough to Stay
Backstage. Dim light, cool chill of a concrete floor, hurrying students. Music instruments, fingered melodies, dance leotards, silent stretches. The not-quite-damp, not-quite musty scent of a place that seldom sees light, the hum of muffled voices as the audience takes their seats, the almost-tangible feeling of intermingled nerves and excitement. I’m no professional performer, but … More Brave Enough to Seek Wholeness
“God, I don’t want the reason I value Immanuel, God with us this year to be because we are grieving.” It’s still a mystery to meHow the hands of God could be so smallHow tiny fingers reaching in the nightWere the very hands that measured out the sky… It’s still a mystery to meThat His … More God With Us
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.” John Greenleaf Whittier At some point in life, consciously or unconsciously, every person starts to wonder how they might live without regrets. Perhaps that is, at least in part, why we live the way we do. Why we choose … More Brave Enough to Hold On
The Road to Brave 