When a Phrase Changes Everything

Has your life ever been changed by a single word? Maybe a phrase or idea? It could have been something that someone said to you or maybe something that seemed to just pop in your head. Well something like this happened to me last year. The phrase that changed my life is this: Just be […]

5 Things I Learned From Being A Camp Counselor

I remember having a conversation with one of my best friends, Jack, our senior year of high school. We were musing about the different things that we should do over the summer before we went off to college. We reminisced about the adventures we had: climbing the ski jump, being evacuated from a town in […]

The Intimate Nature of the Glory of God

I am thankful for my testimony, for the story that God wrote to woo me into a sweet and simple relationship with him. It is rather ordinary, not a lot of flash. Just a big mess and a slow, gradual, and continuing realization that this mess is the stuff of God. The stuff that makes […]

Sailing in Grace – Why We Can Worry Less About life

For the past six months or so I have been wrestling with the ideas of identity and what I want to do with my life. I’m only a sophomore in college but I can already feel the pressure of the “real world” pushing against the bubble that I apparently live in. It seems as if […]