Focus Scripture: “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.” - Ezekiel 36:26 Tragedy has a strange way of reshaping the human heart. It can harden it, building layers of protection around pain, or it can soften it, inviting grace to move in the cracks left behind. When I look back over my life, I can trace the precise moment when that reshaping began. On August 19, 2001, I completed my

Focus Scripture: "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path." - Psalm 119:105 It happens almost every time my wife and I take a picture together. Somewhere in that photo, sitting proudly on top of my head, are my reading glasses. It has almost become a trademark of mine. Sometimes I catch it in time and slide them off before the photo is taken, but most of the time, I forget. It is funny how something meant to help us see has become such a visible part of who I a

Focus Scripture: “Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.” - Romans 12:10 There are seasons in life when God places someone in your path and you do not yet know how deeply they will carve their name on your heart. Spangdahlem, Germany was such a season for us. For those who lived it alongside us, they understood its blessing and its breaking, its beauty and its burden. Life on a military installation is a strange mixture of community and confine