Posts with the category “where-faith-leads”

Can I tell you about the worst layover of my life that turned out to be the best one? Flight delayed, connection missed, stuck in an airport for six hours with nothing to do but people-watch and get hangry. And somewhere around hour three, an older man sat down next to me at my gate, struck up a conversation about nothing in particular, and by hour five I knew about his late wife, his estranged so...  Read More

I have a confession: I have driven through some of the most beautiful places on earth thinking about my grocery list.There's a difference between traveling somewhere and actually being there. You can walk through an entire airport without ever looking up. You can drive through a landscape that would stop a stranger in their tracks and miss every bit of it, because you've seen it a hundred times be...  Read More

Can I tell you about the moment I love most in any trip? It's not the destination. It's not even the drive. It's the second right before you leave — suitcase by the door, coffee still warm in your hand, house gone quiet around you. You check your pockets one more time even though you already checked them twice. And then you hear it: the click of the deadbolt behind you. Something shifts right ther...  Read More