"It's never enough!" "I'm never enough!" "I just can't do this." "I don't measure up." "I'm not good enough." "I give up!" Ever been there? Ever had these thoughts? Have you ever believed that you -just you - are not enough? Well, I am here to tell you, you are...

What does freedom feel like? In a word, indescribable. There is something innately profound about the word freedom. For me, it produces the sense of, "I don't deserve this". And it produces a sincerity of gratitude that cannot be communicated with the most eloquent of...

Over the last couple of years, whether friends or family, loss has been a frequent source of grief, pain and sadness. There are days when I have grieved more than others, and days when grief has been replaced with sweet memories and laughter. In the last several...

This is picture of Grandpa Harold and me on the Christmas before he passed in 2016. This coming weekend would be his birthday here on earth, so I wanted to take a moment and honor the man I got to call Grandpa. My grandpa is the reason I understand that what I do...

In life, better yet, in culture, it seems the game is played by a set of "pre-determined" rules. But whose rules are they? And why do we have to play by them? I have never been one for rules. Rules of games, for example, I can never remember them. I nearly fall asleep...

This weekend my Pastor, Randy Shuler, preached a message from the Proverbs 16:32 which says, "Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city." Perhaps in the past I read these words with misinterpreting eyes...