rich: Red Letter Challenge

I’m one of those kids that didn’t want for much growing up. My needs were met and sometimes even my wants. With that said, I rarely had the top name brands. Those were for the “rich” kids, and we weren’t rich. Fast-forward to my first job and my first paycheck. What did I do? I […]

Known To Be Known

Relationships are messy. The expectations. The hopes and fears. The excitement and disappointments. Yet, figuring out how to connect with others, more specifically how to love and be loved, stands as our greatest life’s work. So, we enter into the messiness of relationships. Doing so we discover the messiness isn’t an unfortunate byproduct, the struggle […]

Covenant [1Word5Voices]

No one stands at the altar (physically or metaphorically) to get married thinking “This is going to end in pain and suffering and heartache.” Yet we know many marriages will end in just those ways. So will friendships and employment and memberships and a variety of other relationships. Why? Without oversimplifying the complexity and wide-range […]