Skip to content
  • Home
  • About Me
  • Contact Me

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. It's like a little club!

Recent Posts

  • These Mountains in our Mind
  • Cultivating Silence
  • How Deep We Dive
  • A big pool and a strong back – a story about Trust
  • Half Dome Heaven – A Story about what’s Right in the World

Instagram

Snow-frosted evergreens are my spirit plant πŸŒ²πŸŒ¨πŸ™πŸ» . |See 2/2/16 for more details|
Sometimes when the landscape opens up, when I’m standing by Lake Johanna or laying in that starlit field I’d run to or this, it feels like God reaches out to stop my soul. And as I look up the great, big, beautiful openness fills me like a helium balloon. I open up a little more too, and He lets himself in.
It was one of those really good days.
Moons out, goons out.
I'll be home for Christmas πŸŽ„
Proud of this guy - four and a half years of long nights and hard work. College wouldn't have been as goofy and fun and memorable without you. Here's to Psych and Suits and Newsroom. The Riley Way, CHKN, and Akenson. Billy dinners, sneaking into Micah's concerts, and piano in the Blue Room. Here's to you πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ» . PC: a fellow beloved Roomie @micahreitz
I'm in the thick of fear and uncertainty and feeling the pressure to prove I'm enough. β€’ I want to have faith, I want to accept love, I want to submit and trust and do all this right. But it's all really messy and muddled right now, and I know I'm not doing it all right. β€’ But I think that's alright. Hope swims in mess and muddle. β€’ So here's to all you who feel it too, we take a breath and pray our prayer and mosey on, right? β€’β€’β€’ PC: @christopherbehnen
Minnesota's the patron saint of fall. Or the kind and old wizard with the most powerful autumnal magic. Or that little kid running giddy through Target in his pumpkin costume.
My uncle suggested we rent out our family to people who don't have one: "And we can disparage them like we do too." I think my dad was right on the money with the $10,000 daily rate.

Previous Thoughts

  • April 2017 (1)
  • February 2017 (1)
  • October 2016 (1)
  • June 2016 (1)
  • April 2016 (2)
  • January 2016 (1)
  • December 2015 (1)
  • November 2015 (1)
  • October 2015 (3)
  • September 2015 (2)
  • August 2015 (1)
  • July 2015 (3)
  • June 2015 (4)
  • May 2015 (3)
  • April 2015 (4)
  • March 2015 (2)
  • February 2015 (4)
  • January 2015 (3)
  • December 2014 (3)
  • November 2014 (4)
  • October 2014 (2)
  • September 2014 (1)
  • July 2014 (1)
  • May 2014 (4)
  • April 2014 (3)

Categories

  • Action (1)
  • Adventure (2)
  • Fiction (2)
  • Identity (4)
  • Life application lists (2)
  • Relationships (2)
  • Seeing God differently (17)
  • Stories from my life (19)
  • When life hurts (7)
  • Working through personal problems (9)

Month: February 2015

February 25, 2015April 14, 2015

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 […]

Posted in Seeing God differently. 1 Comment
February 22, 2015April 14, 2015

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 […]

Posted in Life application lists. Leave a comment
February 18, 2015April 14, 2015

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 […]

Posted in Seeing God differently. Leave a comment
February 7, 2015April 14, 2015

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 β€œreal world” pushing against the bubble that I apparently live in. It seems as if […]

Posted in Working through personal problems. 1 Comment
Blog at WordPress.com. Our Daily Silence
Cancel