Inspired music. Infectious joy. Dancing and celebration, reflecting and dreaming, and most of all, love. I believe this is what heaven will look like. Every tribe, every nation, every language. Love for one another that is not limited by skin color, culture, or language. A love for everyone. Together, we are humanity. We are inContinue reading “Together we are Humanity”
Category Archives: Community
Common Thread
Some of my fondest childhood memories are found in the warm and comforting embrace of food and tradition. As are the vast majority of Americans today, I am the descendant of immigrants. With ancestry rooted mostly in Denmark and Norway, Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, Switzerland, and probably others as well have weaved themselves into myContinue reading “Common Thread”
Meant to live
Life gets in the way of living sometimes. The daily grind of jobs, bills, and responsibilities can feel like a vacuum sucking the joy out of your life, replacing it with a suffocating discontentment that constantly tells you tomorrow will be different, but tomorrow never comes. We keep going around and around, hoping to beContinue reading “Meant to live”
Lost in translation
I’m not trying to brag, but I’m currently sitting at a 458 day streak on Duolingo. I’ve been a lifelong learner of Spanish, starting in 7th grade Introduction to Foreign Language class. At nearly 50 years old, I should be completely fluent by now but unfortunately I’m still far from it. I listen to SpanishContinue reading “Lost in translation”
Make peace
We fight who we hate. We hate who we fear. We fear who we don’t understand. We don’t understand who we don’t know. We don’t know who we turn away from. And, often times we turn away from anyone or anything that is different than us. Those who look different, speak a different language, practiceContinue reading “Make peace”
One Love One Voice 