Between Breaths

New Year’s Eve is the night when time asks us to look back. Not with nostalgia, but with honesty. It is not a celebration so much as a reckoning — an inventory of moments that never asked to be remembered but stayed anyway. The conversations that altered us. The silences that taught us more than…

We Call on Him

For a number of years, Peter and I shared a quiet ritual with our dear friends, Stephen and his late wife Wendy. We each brought a song — something that spoke to us in that season of life — and took turns playing them, sitting together in conversation, letting the lyrics lead us to places…

Cancer Diagnosis

I’m the kind of person who remembers anniversaries—not just the happy ones, but the ones that mark life’s challenges and turning points. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been this way. These dates help me reflect, appreciate, and stay grounded. They remind me not to take life for granted, to hold close the…