Discernment
What’s the Real Problem I Am Trying to Solve?
One of my most challenging classes freshman year in college was physics. I remember going through class after class being completely perplexed as the professor talked about things like...
Spiritual Exercises
Perspective
Every year for the past few years, I have chosen a word of the year. I do not have an elaborate process for choosing this word. Most of the...
Spirituality
Reviving Anticipation
I have a problem with chips and salsa.
During the six months that my children and I were home together all day, every day, I may have eaten a bag...
Reflections
A Story of the Simple and Great Hearing Aid
The other day, I ran around the house looking everywhere for my oldest son’s hearing aids. I checked the counter where we normally place them, his room, the bathroom....
Reflections
Soul to Soul
The loud clang, clang, clang of the church bells resounding across the quad combined with the incessant chatter of excited kids running out of classrooms, looking for either their...
Reflections
When I Feel the Ground Disappearing Beneath Me
One evening in early August, I stood in my kitchen in front of three open lunch boxes, feeling anxiety welling up in me. In order to cope in that...