Conquer Your Mountains
A few summers ago, I took a trip with my family to go hiking in the desert. I enjoy the outdoors, and hiking is both relaxing and taxing enough to get my blood flowing. It was a wonderful trip! The weather was perfect—not too hot or too cold, and clouds gave us some covering from…
Our dreams, once recognized, become an extremely powerful force for change in our lives. It is our dreams which motivate us to action. It is our dreams which determine the path that we choose to walk, as is shown in the actions we take and the resulting ripples they make in the world around us. As…
I’m the youngest of six kids. I have two brothers–the oldest is David and the other is Sean. Sean and I didn’t get along when we were younger. Don’t get me wrong, it was nothing serious. More of a personality difference. I liked Sci-Fi, he liked sports. I wanted to watch cartoons, he wanted to…
** BUZZ BUZZ ** (the alarm goes off) You open one eye, then the other. It’s morning. No, wait … it’s Valentine’s morning. You throw the covers off of yourself and stand up. You look in the mirror and say, “I love you! Happy Valentine’s Day!” Right? No? Why not? Isn’t this a day of…
Mile five. Elevation 6,400 ft. After, 1000 foot elevation change it’s here that I look up and see her struggle. Her backpack is at least thirty pounds heavier than mine. I guess the reason I didn’t notice before is, at the beginning of this journey our burdens seemed light. As our adventure pressed…
I’d like to tell you something about myself, something true. Something I love. I love people. I love them. I love how they are so very, very different, and yet so fundamentally the same. As Gwen Stefani so eloquently puts it, “Once in a while I sit back and think about the planet. Most of the time…
“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love” (Tolstoy) Tis the season of LOVE. With Valentine’s Day closely approaching I thought I would share some of my favorite thoughts, quotes, ideas, etc on love. There’s something exciting about an entire day that focuses on people giving and…
I’d like to tell you a true story about love. When I was a teenager, I was terrified of marriage. How could I ever find one person who I wouldn’t get bored of, who I would care about so much that I would put his needs before my own, and who I could trust in…
Do you see the Flowers? People often ask me why I do the strange things I do — like spending my Friday nights cruising downtown just to talk to all of the street dwellers, picking up hitch-hikers, handing out flowers to strangers, or purposely driving somewhere I have never been at a whim just to…