Present Over Perfect

wholeness. The video shoot came and went, then a road trip and out-of-town meeting came and went, and I ...

asked. No, I said. I did, but now I know. I don’t know this man, the one who stood in hi ...

wanted. But I had to lay them both down, because I needed to leave this old way of living—jamming things o ...

kids won’t know the difference. Mac won’t even remember. But I’ll know. I’ll know, when I tuck th ...

The Spring of the Basketball Hoop This spring is The Spring of the Basketball Hoop. Aaron and I had talked a ...

if we make sure we’re all ready about twenty minutes before the bus comes, and we all go outside together. I ...

soundly, and the kids were delighted about the whole thing. We went in and had tacos and ques ...

When Brave Looks Boring My brother, Todd, and I live on the same street. We share a lawnmower, and he st ...

years isn’t necessarily brave. What you’re doing—what you’re building—I think that’s brave.” His words stay ...

listening instead of talking. Brave is articulating my feelings, especially when the feelings are s ...

Present Over Perfect And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good. —John Steinbeck The phrase ...

my house and our Christmas into something fantastic, something perfect . . . or I could plunk ...

courage. Let’s talk for a minute about perfect: perfect has become as near a dirty word to me as hust ...

you of who you used to be. It’s the Bible with the battered cover, the journal filled with scribbled, secret ...

armor for a frantic professional world—in search of a cozier, plainer, simpler way of living, I ...

last several years to find the woman I used to be—she’s definitely nowhere near perfect, but I ...

Part 4 Walking on Water I have only one thing to do and that’s be the wave that I am, and then sink bac ...

Walking on Water Here’s the thing about filters—they color everything. Nothing is neutral; nothing escapes ...

longer this time! Great job! You’re doing it! But then inevitably sink, receive the scolding. The sco ...

So, of course, that’s the story I see in this one. But on that Sunday night, something clicked and released. ...