It’s been a little over a week since my dog Charlie passed. I definitely miss his wagging tail and greeting me at the door every day. He was simply the best. When my heart hurts I usually write, when i can. At other times things are too painful and get stuffed. It’s hard to describe […]
Returning to Normal
I’ve been sitting here thinking about what it means to enter a new year. Particularly after the dumpster fire that was 2020, how does one even begin to start a new year….particularly one that looks like more of the same instead of something new? I started thinking through stories I know to see if anything […]
Voices from Two Gardens
Yesterday I went to therapy and we talked about hearing voices. Sometimesthere is just so much noise all about us. So many voices telling us we are this or that, questioning whether we are this or that. My therapist asked about what voices I heard speaking to me and where I thought the main ones […]
Walking on Water?
Sometimes it is terrifying walking into whatever is next. The comfort of the past, of the known, the familiar, the safe is easier than facing the fear of walking into a new life. Lately for me I’ve been drawn to the story of Peter walking on water. It all started with this quote by Thomas […]
“What are you afraid of?”
Fear is a funny thing. Most off our lives are spent trying to keep fear at bay. We try to expel it in whatever form we find it. We have night lights and learn to check under the bed for monsters. We amass, accumulate, focus on our health all in hopes that we can ward […]
Am I Okay?
I believe God is way less formal than what we tend to consider God to be. Maybe it’s that we are more comfortable with a structured, somewhat predictable God…thinking somehow we’ll know what we are getting in to if God fits some kind of traditional box. God always appears on his own terms, in his […]
Green Crayons….
It is difficult at times to put into words and express what a relationship with God is sometimes like. I’ll state upfront it’s not all clear skies and always feeling he’s there…but there is an undercurrent, a steady-ness, a reverb of always knowing he’s there. But even then things are surprising just how much he […]
Hello new year, let me introduce you….to Andy
As the pages have turned into a new year it’s that time again to reflect, dream and plan for what’s next…for what 2023 will bring our way. So often we make our plans and resolutions, strive as hard and with as much effort as we can muster and then we begin to wait and see […]
A garden, a tree, and a good life?
There’s a voice sometimes I hear that says, you’re 45 and starting over, or you’re 45 and what do you have to show for it. Or that your best days are in the rearview mirror. See the world wants to judge you by outward appearance and success and whether we can determine whether our lives […]
From The Whale's Belly 