Pause. Take a breath. Feel the ground beneath your feet. For just 10 seconds, maybe a minute, let everything come to a stop. All the momentum from your day, your week. Let it go. How often do you intentionally slow down? How much do you prioritize the rhythm of your life? How do you break out of the societal flow and live at a more sustainable pace? How do you, as Dallas Willard so aptly put it, ruthlessly eliminate hurry? I do not know all the answers to these questions, but on a journey...

In November 2023, I had the incredible opportunity to travel to Peru with Climbing for Christ do document the story of Edwin Milla, a...

The challenge of merely “being” seems to be much more difficult than I anticipated. I wouldn't have even associated the word challenge with it, but it's hard. Even as I write these words, my mind drifts and distracts to all the things I want to do, rather than focusing on this piece of paper, which, at this moment, is allowing me to be who I want to be. In truth, the concept of just “being,” something, my therapist encouraged me to do, isn't something I fully understand yet. Not fully at...