Listening Up
The Art of Listening Up
This series of posts came to be following the publication of Listen Up, Kids: Foolish Dreams, Syncing with God, and Running to Win. It explores a set of life lessons culled from the book and expands to include additional lessons had or realized following the publication.
Why You Don’t Have it All Together and What You Can Do About it
I like to think I have it all together. There are times, though, where I’m completely fractured and anything but. That may be why I am fascinated by stories that have highly flawed people in them....
Our Messed Up World and That Time Jesus Came to an Anxious, Waiting World
Lost in the demands to “keep Christ in Christmas” and the requests to “remember the reason for the season” is a broader purpose: hope for a messed up world. You see, the Old Testament ends with a...
7 Posts About Allowing Anxiety to be Your Teacher
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States. In fact, they’re affecting 40 million adults - that’s 18.1% of the population - every year. Though treatable, most...
How to Reframe Anxiety for Personal Growth
The ability to reframe anxiety is a vital personal growth tool that we - introverts and otherwise - should seek to master. Having spent most of my life being an anxious and nervous person, this took...
Introvert Anxiety Triggers – It’s a Thing!
I can’t help wondering if there is a direct link between anxiety and introverts. The more I think about it, the more I believe it to be true. And, as a classic introvert, I am of course thinking...
Divine Encounters – 7 Posts on Watching for Evidence of God
Divine encounters take many forms. Whether it’s scanning for Jesus Sightings, experiencing God Things, or responding to Spirit Promptings, God is omnipresent. Like it or not, we’re always in the...
The Book
In Listen Up, Kids: Foolish Dreams, Syncing with God, & Running to Win, I share my personal journey from a misfiring shell into a fulfilled and purposeful servant of God. It was originally a modest, heartfelt letter to my daughters, but became a book filled with key life lessons and an inspiring model for others to apply in their own walks with Christ.