How Do I Live a Refining Life, On Purpose?
What do you mean by “refining life, on purpose” – I get that question from time to time. And I understand why. It’s a bit ambiguous. At core level, it’s about personal development. In a deeper sense, it’s about the personal development of character and the...
How a Letter to My Daughters Changed My Life and Saved 1Glories
This is an updated repost from 10/11/2014. As a blog, 1Glories has been around for a handful of years and absolutely nothing had come of it until recently. There had been few readers, no following, and no cohesion despite genuine efforts to replicate the blogging...
Gratitude, Direction and Sharing to Wrap up 2015
This being the last day of 2015, I wanted to take a moment and share my gratitude to everyone who has encouraged me and taken part in refining life on purpose here at 1Glories throughout the year. I’ve personally learned a lot and experienced a lot of growth as a...
How My Daughter’s Baptism Revealed My Greatest Hope
My second daughter was baptized in March of 2008. The pastor asked my wife and I to pick a scripture we wanted to read for the day. He said it didn’t have to relate to baptism and it could be more about Stella and our hopes for her life. It proved to be a bigger...
Things Don’t Always Go According to Plan, and That’s Okay
I’m a planner by nature. I like to have a set of check boxes with clearly itemized tasks so I can check them off and move onto the next to make fully sure that things are on track to the end goal. That’s my nature. If I were to pigeonhole myself according to...
The Origin Story of 1Glories Found in Listen Up, Kids
How did we get here? When did we get so far off course? Did we ever really know where we were going or why we set out for this place? These are all relevant questions… that we often ask much later in the process that we would prefer – but it’s never too late. I guess...