To See Something New
Last summer our youngest daughter had asked to have a family day at Santa Monica Pier to celebrate her birthday. It was a clear day at the beach, and shortly after a brain freeze from Dip...
Love Will Meet Resistance.
The office is empty except for on thing: a lone computer desk—the only furniture left to move over to our new apartment in Hollywood. Every room has become a bathroom-like echo chamber making phone conversations more...
Back on a Bike for the First Time—Continuing “Here’s That End of Summer Feeling”
Even if I haven’t ridden in years, it’s fun to hop back on a bike, feel that muscle memory kick-in, spin the peddles while I face the wind, and enjoy the ride. I wish movements in...
Here’s That End of Summer Feeling.
“I’ve been feeling a change is coming for the last two months. God is moving us. I can’t continue in the work I’m doing and we can’t live here anymore.” Coming off an epic week, it’s...
Yoga: A Spiritual Welcome From the Body. Pt. 2
Before continuing part two, I recommend a read or re-fresh of part one to put you back in the story—to find out why pantheon is more than an ancient Roman temple and how worldview affects our...
Yoga: A Spiritual Welcome From The Body. Pt. 1
“My family honors Jesus as a holy man, but I don’t want to know him more than that, unless I can keep my pantheon of other gods,” my neighbor gestured with her hands as if welcoming...
How Seeking Self-Help Led to Judgment —Radical Simplicity
This post is part of the ‘Radical Simplicity Series’ confronting futile ways we seek to get our life on the right path. Exposing and addressing these matters of the heart is significant to what’s ahead for...
Radical Simplicity — A Series
Simplicity can be defined as the state of being simple or uncomplicated. In me, it evokes the tranquility felt as I ascend the escalator onto Ikea’s showroom floor. From furniture to store layout, they clear a...
I Thought Mountaintops Were for Making Out
He fell in love first; I followed. We’ll celebrate 20 years of marriage in August. The enemy hates what marriage represents—the devoted covenant of love our groom, Jesus, keeps with the whole Church, His bride. Living...
Three Temptations of Materialism
A Smooth Break-Up It’s another glorious SoCal afternoon as I peer discriminately at the contents of my closet. It’s ‘donate day’ and I’ve just eyed another winner. With some victims already in the box from the...