The Blog: Voices from the road

Dear friend, I bring you stories from my back road travels; looking for God in the imperfections, the messy, and the real of life. I share my own experiences in hopes that you can catch a glimpse of yourself in them, and know that even when life gets hard, you’re not alone.

Unexpected Helpfulness

I am fascinated by human behavior and how we react to situations. Understand I said ‘react’ not act. We react to everyday situations and things that present us with a choice on how to respond. That choice we choose and the behavior that we exhibit interests me. I was studying

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Fear and Freedom

Two words that start with the letter ‘F’ but couldn’t be further apart in meaning and function There are many things, events, feelings, emotions that are common to all men and women. Some are good, some are bad, and some can be used for good that might be considered bad.

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100% Genuine, Authentic

Original, Genuine, 100% pure are all phrases we’ve heard hundreds if not thousands of times. They get lost in the marketing madness of today’s world where phrase and name recognition wins the day. In the end, though, does a catchy phrase actually change your situation or ‘win the day’ when

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Routines

It’s so easy at times to get lost in our routines that we lose sight of the fact if they are significant or not.  Sometimes we lose the significance of our routine things because we do them all of the time.  For those of us who live in the middle

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Let’s Focus!

  Focus is such an interesting topic. Growing up in a ‘photo family’, using a camera was basically a requirement. It wasn’t just the art form of what makes a good composition, it was the technical side of how a camera works. Focus is a powerful tool when talking about

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Linchpin Moments.

I heard a phrase the other day and it triggered off something in me that I found to be true in my life. Linchpin Moments. It’s those moments when you either immediately know or eventually know, something just happened that made a quantifiable change in you. Let’s be honest, at

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Below the Waterline

  We easily forget this but what happens below the surface is actually more important then what we see on the outside or above the water line. Being a child of NC, born and bred in from the red clay and evergreen pines of NC, the USS North Carolina is

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I believe YOU CAN!

  I believe you can… I don’t know for sure but if I were to have a Ph.D. it would be on ‘how to keep going’ and never giving up. We laugh at the movie Galaxy Quest but the line ‘never give up, never surrender’ actually has a real life,

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Team Building and Team Morale

    Most of us work best in some kind of team. There are two main things that help build a great team to accomplish the goals ahead! Collaboration Safety And…there are two main groups in any team. Extroverts and Introverts. It is true that when we have a harmonious,

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Letting go…So you can Grow

 This week was a milestone. I have been cradling, like all parents, my son since the day of his birth. There are many ‘big events’ in a child’s life but one of them is getting a drivers license. The permit is one thing but the actual license is something

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Books:

Shattered Glass

When life breaks us, we all need to find handholds and I choose to believe that Christ was and is intimately involved with what occurred. I see that Christ is the ‘Hope of Glory’, Colossians 1:27 and it’s that Hope that is offered to all. That Hope is the foundation of what got me to this point in life.

I pray God uses this tiny, little piece of Shattered Glass from my life to help you find the Hope he offers to you.

The Day I Learned To Fly

Eight year old Jeff’s imagination isn’t earth bound. He dreams of flying over his neighborhood, free from the bonds of gravity – becoming part of the elite list of eight year olds who have flown.

When he and his brothers begin building a homemade go kart, he leaps on this opportunity to use his ingenuity, and make his dreams real!