Stumble Up

Passion · Week 2 · Tuesday She’s thirty-four and four months into a new team, still at the stage where she reads the room more carefully than she’d like to admit. On Thursday a colleague walked the leadership group through…

Passion · Week 2 · Monday He is fifty-eight, and nine years ago his younger brother handled the sale of their father’s business in a way he considered a betrayal. He has an account of it. Everyone who knows him…

Passion · Week 2 · Sunday Something Is Burning Well There was a stretch two springs ago when I got more done in six weeks than I had all year. Up before anyone else. Inbox clear by seven. Decisions I’d…

Passion · Week 1 · Saturday Recap Passion I spent this whole week reading about passion and thinking about the fact that my sons can tell. The Week in Review We started on Sunday with the six-week fire, the one…

Passion · Week 1 · Thursday Come Out of Hiding He stopped praying the same week he did the thing he still cannot say out loud. He is twenty, first year out of the house, and he did not decide…

Passion · Week 1 · Wednesday Cooled by Degrees Nobody in that house ever decided to stop praying. It simply stopped happening. There was no argument about it. No crisis of faith, no offense at the church, nobody storming out…

Passion · Week 1 · Tuesday The Love You Had at First He was doing everything right, and his wife told him she missed him anyway. Ten years in. He provided, and provided well. He was faithful, and had never…

Passion · Week 1 · Monday Is This Even Available? Her son came home from camp lit up like a bonfire, and the first thing she felt was not joy. It was envy. He prayed out loud in the car…

Passion · Week 1 · Sunday The Sustained Burn He came home from that weekend genuinely on fire, and six weeks later the alarm was off again. Nothing dramatic happened, and that is the part worth sitting with. He did…