Today, October 11, is National Coming Out Day—a day to honor truth-telling, to celebrate courage, and to make the world softer and safer for everyone who shares who they are. What this day is—and why it matters National Coming Out Day...

This post is part of the ongoing Evernight series — a journey through darkness, dreaming, and rebirth. Each entry stands alone, yet together they tell the story of how light learns to live among shadows. If you’re new, you...

(Evernight Series, Part 4) In this quiet turning of the Evernight season, we pause at the edge of mystery — where the candlelight fades and imagination begins. The Magic of Shadows invites us to see darkness not as an absence,...

(Evernight, Part III)Every costume hides a truth. Every monster tells a story. When twilight creeps down the spine of October and the air smells faintly of smoke and candy, Evernight awakens again. The lanterns flicker. The masks return to their...

This post is part of the Halloween series, exploring the ways wonder, imagination, and even fright can become pathways to deeper life. Fear has teeth. It sharpens the air, makes shadows stretch longer, and turns every creak of the floorboards...

Halloween begins with the simplest of joys: dress-up.A box of old clothes, a splash of face paint, a mask pulled from the dollar store rack—suddenly we become someone else. A pirate. A witch. A glittering skeleton with bones that...

Music is not only made of sound—it is also made of silence. The rests, the pauses, the lingering moments when no note is played are not absences but presences of their own. Without them, melodies would collapse into chaos,...

There is a kind of holiness in laughter that cannot be faked. It bubbles up from the belly, erupts through the chest, and shakes the body in a way that dissolves all pretension. Laughter is a great leveler. It...

Imaginary Friends and Real Truths How children’s imaginary friends (and adults’ inner voices) reveal deep truths about love and resilience The Companions We Create Almost every child, at some point, invents an imaginary friend. These companions live in the liminal space between...

A Sacred Play allegory about community, cycles, and light-sharing Prologue: A Whisper in the Grass One summer night, when the air was warm and the stars had softened their gaze, I lay in a field thick with wild clover and unspoken...

Sacred Colors: The Rainbow as Scripture “A living sacred text written in light and wonder.” I. The Living Text Above Us Some scriptures are bound in leather and ink. Others are whispered in silence, carried in breath. And then there are scriptures...

Introduction: The Sacred Hidden in Plain Sight We live in a world overflowing with marvels, yet so often we rush past them, our eyes fixed on what’s next — the deadline, the headline, the grocery list, the ache in our...