Once upon a time, before YouTube was a thing, I dreamt of traveling the world as a videographer for missionaries. It was a fantastic dream. The idea was to collaborate with several churches in the area so they could team … Read More
*Originally published on www.ClearwaterTrekker.com “To be at home is to have a place in the scheme of things — a place where we are comfortable; know that we belong; can be who we are; and can honor, protect, and … Read More
*Originally published on www.ClearwaterTrekker.com On El Camino de Santiago in Spain, they would say, “Your pilgrimage begins when your Camino ends.” I didn’t fully understand the saying, because this was supposed to be my pilgrimage. This waking and hiking, eating … Read More
*Originally published on www.ClearwaterTrekker.com Why do we go into the wilderness to do therapy and create rites of passage? Because the wilderness has a way of taking us to the edge of our maps, just beyond our comfort zones … Read More
*Originally published on www.ClearwaterTrekker.com Once upon a time, I went for a walk in the woods with brooding thoughts clouding my mind. Moss clung heavily to tree branches where no leaves grew. Broken snags were bored with holes where birds … Read More
Remember those televangelists from the 80’s who claimed God would fulfill your every need and desire if you just believed enough? My mom hated that message. She would often point to Jesus’ words in Matthew 17:20 about how all you … Read More
The core belief motivating my current journey is that God won’t do the work for me. This feels like a lack of faith in God because for so long I believed that He would be at work within me making … Read More
I used to tell a story when I was younger. A simple story I’d heard about having faith in the seemingly random will of God. As the story goes… A young man asks God how he can serve Him. In … Read More
Mel and I sat beside her tent, listening to the roar of the Grey Wolf River and talking about our work as wilderness therapy field guides. It had been a rough shift with hike strikes, unmedicated ADHD, and struggling new … Read More
My religious upbringing taught me that the purpose of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross and resurrection from the grave was, through propitiation, to make a personal relationship with the Divine Father possible for me. All I had to do was … Read More