Stella

It’s amazing how much incredible potential awaits us when we’re intentional about how we meet with disappointments and challenges. There’s an opportunity to either open ourselves up to a different, unplanned possibility or to respond with resistance....

The Other Side of the Desk

It was only about eight in the morning, and yet it was already stiflingly hot. I’d been living in a strange land, the desert essentially, for almost a year and still had not made friends with that dry, oppressive heat. I don’t think I ever would have, and...

Sweating the Small Stuff (Don’t Do It)

I spent approximately eight minutes picking out toilet paper in the grocery store the other day. I didn’t exactly time it, and really – that seems like a conservative estimate (it felt like an eternity).  I can’t explain exactly why. Well, yes I can. So many...

Living as If

“Today is going to be the best day ever.” I heard these words from my 6-year-old daughter this morning, and I hear them on a regular basis. Not only does she speak this truth, but she speaks it into existence. When I ask her about the day during our nighttime ritual...