My Hopes for 2015!

I love ringing in the New Year. I love the feeling that accompanies the blank slate that is the countdown to the calendar change. It screams second chances. It feels freeing and challenging. It’s a day full of HOPE! As this New Year settles upon all of us, I thought I...

Life Is Not A Race

Hurry! Do It Now! Be Busier! You Gotta Hustle! If You’re Not In A Hurry, You’re Not Working Hard Enough! Have you ever heard stuff like this? Maybe from your boss? Your parents? Or maybe you’ve even heard it from that voice inside your head? You know, the...

Quit Hiding Out In Detroit!

It’s amazing to think that we are, each of us, a God-created and eternal being with a tremendous power to affect change around the world… and that most of us don’t walk in that identity. Why, it would be like being a folk singer who recorded a couple of albums in the...

When Opportunity Knocks

I don’t know about you, but I love this time of year. Christmas has just ended; the house is fresh with gifts and leftovers and a new year is right around the corner. I love the thought of a clean slate, a fresh start, a new beginning. With my background I guess that...

Sometimes I Completely Feel Lost

Can I be honest with you? Sometimes I completely feel lost. In fact, this hollow emotion hits me at least twice a day. For a moment the future looks impossibly hard to navigate, hope seems to be lost and life-long sobriety seems ways out of reach. But what worst of...

The quickest way to a miracle

Do you want to see a miracle? Learn how to give yourself away. The past seven days have been full of opportunities to give back to others what God has so freely given to me. I’ve been able to sit down and talk about decision making with fathers and sons, discuss...