In my book, "An Intimate Collision," I tell the story of a blind man named Doug. Doug lived his life walking through it touching, smelling, holding and savoring everything along the way. He savored the journey because his handicap left him with little alternative. Doug did not live for great goals. Rather, he lived for small things. And to … [Read More]
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The Fullest Embodiment of Love
In my book, "An Intimate Collision," the first chapter engages the these of "love." But it does so not in the sense of human love and the shallowness of that kind of love. Rather, it engages it in terms of God's love, which is both the fullest embodiment of love as well as the fullest expression of our humanity. A quote drawn from that chapter … [Read More]

A New Start – The Concept of a New Beginning
What would I do with a new start? I mean a really new, ‘new’ start? Not something that looks new because we’ve vigorously spit-shined something that’s old to a new luster. Not some radical make-over of something that’s radically old so that it looks convincingly new. Not a meticulous restoration that’s going to erase the footprints of time and … [Read More]

The New Year – Clean Slate or Simply Stale
With the New Year we long for a fresh start. We want to wipe the slate clean, removing the smudges and the smears. We want to get rid of the errors, the poor choices, the misguided decisions and the bruising flops that populated the previous year. We want to wipe away old habits, clean up destructive behaviors, sponge up toxic relationships, run … [Read More]