Month: April 2018

Dear friends,

After much contemplation, I’ve decided to cease posting on my blog for now. My goal in writing remains unchanged — to share a collection of stories and reflections intended to reveal the impact of God’s love on my life, and on the lives of others I’ve been fortunate to meet and know. But as I’ve reflected on the channels available to share these stories, a published book is the format that feels most productive to me. The book will include the full set of 21 Stepping Stones I’ve begun to reveal via this blog.

I’ve been an avid reader my whole life. My office is filled with books that include scribbled notes and underlines, pages tagged for easy recall, and so on. When I pick up these books, there’s an undeniable peace and energy that flows from those pages … a warmth that always invites me to dig deeper. This is the format in which I want to create for others.

It’s been wonderful to see this online audience grow. You’ve given me great encouragement and I’m very grateful for that. Thank you.

Some of you have asked about opening up the “comments” section of the blog. My hope is that the book I’ll publish instead draws people to sit face-to-face, side-by-side, to discuss what they’ve read, and to share their own stories of God’s generous love. I continue to believe these personal, one-to-one connections remain most pivotal in sharing our faith and shaping our journeys:

“For where two or more come together in My Name, there am I with them.” Matthew 18: 20

I’ll post through this site when the book is available.

Until then, know that I’m on a mission to finish the book quickly!

I wish you much peace and joy as you continue your journeys to draw closer to God.

God loves us.
He loves us deeply and without end.
Love always wins.

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13: 13

“Dig Here,” the Angel Said

She caught me off guard when my soul said to me, “Have we met?”

So surprised I was to hear her speak like that I chuckled.

She began to sing a tale: “There was once a hard working man who used to worry so much because he could not feed and clothe his children and wife the way he wanted.

“There was a beautiful little chapel in the village where the man lived and one day while he was praying, an angel appeared.

“The angel said, ‘Follow me.’ And he did into an ancient forest. ‘Now dig here,’ the angel said. And the man felt strength in his limbs he had not known since youth and with just his bare hands, he dug deep and found a lost treasure, and his relationship with the world changed.”

Finding our soul’s beauty does that — gives us tremendous freedom from worry.

St. John of the Cross