12:01am… What Changed?

Because I'm writing this on New Years Eve, this is going to sound like a post about New Years resolutions, but it could just as easily be appropriate for any Sunday morning... the first day of the week; the first day of the month, or "tomorrow". Not just New Years Day tomorrow... but any "tomorrow". It's not …

BECOMING STRONGER THAN THE EXCUSES

As a person who's spent years working with people in the throes of addiction, I am fully aware that the battle to become clean and sober is never over. The demons never really leave, they simply take up residence on the outskirts of town and await an opportune time to test our convictions... always looking …

The Spider and the Fly

(I didn’t see this post coming when I started my morning… but perhaps a lesson we can find a practical way to apply to our own lives.) I saw an interesting battle on my front porch this morning. A larger than average spider was lowering itself by its web out of the tree next to …

CLIMBING MOUNTAINS

WHAT DRAWS US TO THE MOUNTAIN? What stirs in a person’s heart to draw us to the mountaintop?  The effort involved in preparing for and then getting to the trailhead, hiking up a trail with possibly 30% grades or more; dropping our heavy pack and stretching our ever-tightening hamstrings and lower back along the way, …

THOUGHTS ALONG THE TRAIL

Note: I started out intending to write a post titled “Don’t Follow Me”.   However, as the thoughts developed, focus turned toward my experience hiking to my favorite spot in Rocky Mountain National Park…Mills Lake.  I’m going to go ahead and move this direction with the post believing it was to evolve this direction.  Hiking has …