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January 2022

January 27, 2022

Our Complicated Relationship with Endings

There is a strange dichotomy in the human experience between looking toward an ending and...

December 2021

December 16, 2021

Rejoice, Weary World!

Every year, I seem to become fixated with one very specific element of the Christmas...

November 2021

November 30, 2021

The Home Stretch

With Thanksgiving in the rear view mirror, the holiday season is officially underway. So is...

October 2021

October 21, 2021

Thoughts on Grieving

After five years of trying to conceive, we just found out our first attempt at...

September 2021

September 09, 2021

The Light in the Tunnel

We often talk about the proverbial “light at the end of the tunnel”, the hope...

May 2021

May 11, 2021

The Mystical, Practical, and Overlooked Powers of Prayer

In a lot of ways, the Christian tradition has neutered the power of prayer. We...

April 2021

April 27, 2021

My Agency in My Own Safety

There are few things as hotly contested in today’s world than the idea of personal...

March 2021

March 18, 2021

Reflections on The Happenings of a Year

It has been a full year since the Coronavirus pandemic manifested in full and a...

March 11, 2021

Losing Our Ability to Perceive

It is no real secret that the world is going bonkers. Not exactly a hot...

February 2021

February 02, 2021

What Groundhog Day Has to Say About Patterns and Hope

Today is Groundhog Day. The one day a year Americans put their jovial hope in...

January 2021

January 14, 2021

Long Live The Dream

It has been nearly sixty years since Martin Luther King Jr. famously declared “I have...

June 2020

June 25, 2020

How Far Is Too Far (For Vision Casting)

I have to admit, I had big plans for 2020. We have been struggling with infertility for...

April 2020

April 03, 2020

The Epicenter of Pandemic: COVID-19

One of the things we are hearing in the midst of this pandemic is people...

April 22, 2019

In The Clefts

There is a story in the Bible where Moses asks to see God’s glory. The...

September 2018

September 21, 2018

The Promise of Today

There is something significant about the start of a brand new day. The deck reshuffles....

August 2018

August 22, 2018

There is No Rescue From The Arena of Circumstances

When painful circumstances strike, we all have the same initial impulse. We’ve got to fix...

August 13, 2018

How Fear Scares Away Hope

We have been trying to get pregnant for the better part of eighteen months. To...

June 2018

June 27, 2018

Why Would You Want to Bring a Baby Into This World?!

My wife and I have been trying to get pregnant for well over a year,...

May 2018

May 23, 2018

To Have and Have Not: A Journey of Perspective

My wife and I have struggled with infertility and a miscarriage over the last eighteen months. As...

May 21, 2018

Why Terror is Destined to Fail

My parents are in town visiting this week. They live in the Galveston, TX area...

April 2018

April 23, 2018

Infertility and the Approach to Grief

My wife and I have been trying to get pregnant for more than a year....

April 20, 2018

The Connection Between Earth and All of Our Imagined Worlds

I’m not a big environmentalist. Don’t get me wrong; I enjoy this planet as much...

April 16, 2018

Is Hope an Endangered Species?

Hope is one of the most powerful virtues available to humans. Although we talk about...

January 2018

January 03, 2018

How Miscarriage Parted The Sea of My Faith

I knew it would be sad. I knew it would be hard to talk about....