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stories of our life together on the road home

Navigating Roads with My Cab-Driving Soul

“Break the wrist, walk away. It’s that simple.” It’s a hilarious and quotable line from Napoleon Dynamite when Rex is introducing Rex Kwon Do. It’s followed by a couple painful…

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The Power of Poetic Prayers

Several years ago, I felt the floor beneath my feet give way. Over the course of a few months, my family (my wife and three children) experienced a series of…

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The Heaviest Thing I Have Ever Carried

Lately, I have felt continually burdened. You might have even prayed for me or seen me in my misery and not known what to pray. I have been in cancerland…

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The Risk of Uncertainty

It is remarkably more safe, I think, to not pray than to pray. When I was in my early 20s, my brother called me urgently from his college to tell…

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My Seven-Word Prayer

When I was a kid, I ended every day with the same prayer. It wasn’t a prayer taught in Sunday School or one discussed in a sermon. I made it…

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