You make a new commitment. You watch a friend die. You finally decide. You screw up. You get the award. You finish the book. You make the call. You answer the call. You finish. You start. You can’t figure it out. You didn’t get to sleep. You won. You lost. Then it’s the next morning. […]

Jesus is traveling through Samaria. We’re too politically correct to understand the cultural divide.  But imagine Billy Graham backstage at a burlesque show. Carrie Nation on a Jack Daniels Factory tour.  God as the celebrity judge on “So you think you can swear like a sailor?” Jesus sits next to a well. A woman comes to […]

As you know if you read 300words regularly, I’ve been taking a few days off from writing. I called it a sabbatical. It was more of a running out of steam. I’ve spent most of the evenings since I stopped writing at meetings or traveling or teaching or all three. It has been good to […]

Sometimes we just need to talk. To each other. About what is needed. And we need to listen. To each other. About what is needed. And listen with ears, yes, but listen with hearts. Listen to words and silences carefully because we cannot know what is inside someone else. We cannot anticipate what they might […]

I set out to write a post contrasting “telling a better story” with “telling your story better.” I was going to suggest that sometimes, the story that our life is telling doesn’t need a new “where” or “project” or “calling”. Sometimes we need to take the story we are telling and try again. We may […]