Becoming a Wounded Healer

Every day, I witness something that both breaks my heart and fills me with hope: the profound pain that so many people carry, often without even realizing it. This hidden suffering doesn’t just stay buried. It shapes everything. How we work, who we love, what we buy, what we consume, and how we spend ourContinueContinue reading “Becoming a Wounded Healer”

Finding Freedom by Letting Go of Revenge

True freedom begins with one of life’s most challenging decisions: choosing to release our right to get even. While the desire for revenge burns naturally in our hearts, we possess something that sets us apart from the animal kingdom—the gift of free will. This divine ability allows us to choose restraint over retaliation, wisdom overContinueContinue reading “Finding Freedom by Letting Go of Revenge”

Beyond the Comparison Trap: What the Spirit Reveals About True Success

There’s a whisper that echoes in the moments of longing—when we glimpse someone else’s life and feel that familiar stirring: “If only I had their success, their relationships, their seeming ease with life’s complexities.” I’ve carried this yearning in my own heart until a deeper truth began to unfold through Scripture and experience. Paul’s wordsContinueContinue reading “Beyond the Comparison Trap: What the Spirit Reveals About True Success”

Authoring Your Life

When we wake up, we face a choice that will shape the trajectory of our day and ultimately, our entire existence. This choice is not found in our to-do lists or calendars, but in the deeper question of whether we will be passive observers of our lives or active authors of our own story. EachContinueContinue reading “Authoring Your Life”

Neighborly Love Podcast, Episode 58 – Brandon Miller

Ordinary People. Extraordinary Conversations. The Neighborly Love podcast features casual conversations over coffee in a virtual coffee shop that explores the integration of classical education with teaching what it means to be a neighbor. Classical learning empowers liberation from ignorance and confusion, from prejudice and delusion. In the Parable of the Good Samaritan in theContinueContinue reading “Neighborly Love Podcast, Episode 58 – Brandon Miller”

A Father’s Journey: Following God’s Call to Nashville

Reflections on faith, calling, and a daughter’s divine gift The highway stretches before us, ribboning through Tennessee hills toward Nashville—a city of dreams, music, and divine appointments. In the passenger seat, my daughter Jarah hums softly, her voice carrying that unmistakable quality that first caught our attention when she was just five years old. ThisContinueContinue reading “A Father’s Journey: Following God’s Call to Nashville”

Managing Your Mind: The Battle That Determines Everything

I often find myself wrestling with thoughts that seem to arrive uninvited. Perhaps you know this experience—the mental chatter that never quite ceases, the internal dialogue that can either lift us toward our highest calling or drag us into the shadows of doubt and despair. This daily reality has taught me a profound truth: learningContinueContinue reading “Managing Your Mind: The Battle That Determines Everything”

Your Calling Isn’t Found—It’s Created

We’re all searching for life’s holy grail—that elusive source of miraculous power that provides happiness, wholeness, and sustenance in infinite abundance. Without it, we feel inadequate and incomplete, merely going through the motions. We hunger for significance, for work that matters, for a calling that gives our lives meaning. But here’s the truth many miss:ContinueContinue reading “Your Calling Isn’t Found—It’s Created”

The Key to Seeing Clearly

Mister Rogers on Growth The hardest person to love is often yourself—especially when you’ve been your own harshest critic. We all carry within us both a critical voice and a compassionate one. The key is learning to nurture that compassionate part through spiritual eyes that see clearly every single day. Seeing with spiritual eyes isn’tContinueContinue reading “The Key to Seeing Clearly”

Neighborly Love Podcast, Episode 57 – Katherine (Kate) McKerley

Ordinary People. Extraordinary Conversations. The Neighborly Love podcast features casual conversations over coffee in a virtual coffee shop that explores the integration of classical education with teaching what it means to be a neighbor. Classical learning empowers liberation from ignorance and confusion, from prejudice and delusion. In the Parable of the Good Samaritan in theContinueContinue reading “Neighborly Love Podcast, Episode 57 – Katherine (Kate) McKerley”