The Contrast to The Dark I had the privilege to drive my oldest to a Dr appointment this morning. As we do when we are just him and me, we talk about important things. This is one of my greatest joys as a father, in getting to know, understand and deep in my relationship with my loves. What was impressed upon me to share with him is how grateful that God chose my wife and I to be his parents. And although we may not always get it, right we still hope that we’re giving him everything that h...

Little Pieces of Love So today is day 2 of my boys and me making post it notes about what we love and appreciate about my wife, and placing them in places where she can see them in the morning. It’s incredibly cute to see my oldest and how much fun he’s having being sneaky about what he’s writing. And now my youngest is a three-year-old and it’s equally funny to see what he wants me to write for him. Now since I get up long before my wife does I’m in charge of placing the notes. And in ...

A Good Day, A Long Day, A Full Day So about a week or so before Christmas, I was invited to a BNI meeting by a friend. That meeting was this morning. Now I’ve had a lot of reservations and mixed feelings about BNI groups as some of them seem to focus just on the Making money absent the human component. Now, having had a chance to sub in for a friend of mine it seemed like even though there were some of those people at that BNI chapter, there were also a lot of genuine, caring people there ...

Unexpected Gifts: So today I was trying to get Remi (my 3yr old) ready in time so we could walk to school. But with missing shoes, an unpacked lunch, and a boy that wasn’t wanting to eat breakfast, we weren’t able to make it out in time to walk. This meant that we were going to have to rush off to the bus, which we barely made it to. But as I was “rocketing” Remi onto the bus, the bus driver assistant hands me a red envelope with all of our families names on it. Surprised I said thank y...

Oh Shoot, I Messed Up! So today I was giving my friend (who has quickly become a brother) a lot of grief over not getting in contact with people I had referred to him for the work he does. Only to forget a promise that I made to connect to a mutual friend of ours yesterday! I was awoken at close to 1am in panic of remembering that I didn’t follow through with my word. This really really hurts when I don’t follow through with what I say I’m going to do because I hold truthfulness, honesty, ...

Tender Mercies A reflection on yesterday morning: Two nights ago I was in immense spiritual battle that had left me in a very sad and lost place. This led me to pray my heart out and ask for both understanding and relief from the immense anguish I was facing. Through the night I was still facing these challenges although they had been greatly reduced, they still negatively impacted my sleep. So I woke up early, went for a walk and prayed some more. Still feeling broken, beaten, and t...

A Good Long Day After a long night of facing lots of shadow and lots of darkness, today was filled with connection and love and understanding. Although, in my morning walk, things started out pretty rough as I was still feeling deep in sorrow. But through a lot of prayer and a lot of soul-searching, I was able to find peace. Now this didn’t come all at once. And it was only five minutes before I either needed to take my boys to the bus or walk them to school that I was directed to take them ...

Darkness Attempting to Devour Light So I’ve just gotten back from a late night walk, my second walk of the day. I needed some extra clear my head space. It was dark and cloudy, but with an almost full moon, the light shown through on the occasion when it wasn’t obscured by thick wispy dark clouds. As the clouds moved across the face of the moon is interesting to see the Sheep and designs that swept across its face. At one point as I stood there watching there was what looked like a serpen...

From Student to Friend to Client to Brother: Yesterday evening after having helped people through some really difficult challenges through my work and my business, I received an unexpected voice note from someone that I care deeply about. He shared about how much the men’s work in the men’s group has meant to him, and how strong and independent he has been in the face of deep challenging heartache. And how, in the midst of all of that heartache and heartbreak he had experienced God‘s grace ...

In gratitude of beauty: I’m walking by the stream by my house today that runs along the street I walk on and run on and exercise along side and after the hours, I’ve spent cleaning up that stretch of stream how struck with this house being clean and how much natural beauty is there. I had to pause for a moment right by one of the overpasses that I had cleared out and it was as if the stream was saying thank you by just being and doing what it naturally is a naturally does. It’s moments lik...

Pre-hypothermic run back home. 🥶 So locally for the first day of the year celebration a group was created for a polar plunge. This sounded like a fun alternative to sitting in a stream all by myself, so I decided to join, with a twist. I knew they would likely just jump in and then come straight out. I wanted to stay and swim for a bit. And since I knew there were people partying on NYE the night before, I brought my snorkel gear and light to clean up the swimming area. So after I le...

It’s nearing 2026! There has been a lot of things overcome. There has been a lot of unexpected growth and learnings. There has been a deepening of love and understanding. New brothers have been found, new friendships formed. Unhealthy relationships have been removed, healthy boundaries have been formed. Physical injuries have occurred and have healed. My relationship to God has been examined and cleaned up. I’ve made advancements in business and my purpose. I’ve helped countles...

Man I’m feeling tired today. Yesterday I’d walked upstream in my local stream cleaning up garbage, golfballs, beer cans and other rubbish. Arriving empty handed other that a small mesh swimmers rubbish bag on a carabiner, I ended up with a 35 gallon black trash bag 1/4 the way filled with trash I’d found either around the stream or while I was in it. It was also like an adventure I’d go on as a child as I had to walk under the bridge of three roads to reach the trash. The overpasses were...

Sadly it’s night #2 of my oldest boy being sick and projectile vomiting. Last night my awesome wife was able to handle things knowing I had an early day full of clients and people needing assistance. Tonight/ today it was so bad that my assistance was required. It was stinky, it was messy, it was gross, and yet we worked together, taking parts of his bed apart to make sure things were clean and sterilized. And credit to my boy who was upset about the situation but was overall relatively ...

It’s both extremely challenging and beautifully rewarding being a guide to helping people overcome the darkest moments humanity has endured. This also means that a lot of my time is invested in being there with people through their darkest moments. It also being there, therefore them as they begin to own their strengths own their God-given capabilities. I’m both humbled that I get to do the work and I'm grateful for having both the skills and the heart to do so. And this is why I founded L...

Off to more Christmas fun!! My family and I are going to Snoqualmie falls trail that is decorated up with Christmas lights. ...

Whew! A slew of emotions today. Ranging from high amounts of joy, depths of sadness, and great appreciation. Today was the first Sunday after Christmas that the men were coming together. It was beautiful, challenging, connecting, and inspirational. As this is a place of nonjudgmental appreciation and connection. A place of men to lay their burdens down, reconnect with their lives and things they value, see their true worth, and celebrate their advancements. I’m honored to be there for ...

On my walk before getting to my client appointment today, I was directed to not take my weights with me. Thinking this was a tad odd as I do weighted functional movement about every other day, I decided to listen and leave them behind. As I was walking the path that is parallel to the stream, I was prompted to “go to the stream”. I looked around and there wasn’t a place I could get close to the stream other than where a kind looking older couple were standing up the trail. As I approache...

Man am I glad my main focus in my business is not making money. But serving my clients with what they actually need. Prior to my consultation today, I had spent a lot of time in prayer and contemplation, and I kept getting this sense that the person I was supposed to meet with was strong enough and had enough to know their true value their true worth and could take their change and transformation from here. They had a deep and personal growth experience as a result of us chatting. Afterwards...

Unexpected Strengths Emerging So today I was awaiting a delivery of a cold plunge cooler. Since the Salmon are arriving in the stream by my house, I want to leave them as undisturbed as possible. So as I was prepping for the delivery, I had this idea, “What if I were to give the delivery driver a gift for his kid?” So I thought of offering a little crystal dragon I’d got for Christmas. Then I thought, “ooh wouldn’t it be nice to give cookies as well?” Well, the only cookies that were availa...

Wow it was nice to lay down all of what I normally do. Whether helping clients overcome a traumatic past and step into their superpowers. Helping people with restoring their lives after the flood. Spreading gifts of joy and cookies to neighbors and friends. Helping friends work through the loss of those close to them. Or finding new friends and people in need on my walks/ adventures. It was nice to lay it all down and just celebrate with family. Spending time in love and togetherness...

Wow, OK so yesterday was intense in so many ways. It was filled with being there and supportive a man whose mother was going through a quadriplegic surgery on Christmas Eve, helping someone overcome the loss of someone who took their own life, and finding out that a different man that I had connected with during Thanksgiving had been committed to the hospital. Now, as much as this may sound weird and strange and as physically and psychologically taxing, as it can be, I love being able to hel...

Damn it! We lost another one. I just got off a call with a close friend that informed me that a man she knew had taken his life. I only wish that I had known him and had the opportunity to be there for him. Although he is a stranger to me, he is still one of God‘s miracles and of tremendous worth. And from what I was told Iz, he was a tremendously, bright, loving and caring light. But this also reminds me of the natural contrasting effect of the depth of darkness that someone may be experie...

Man, oh man, I’m much tired currently out on my morning walk which I really really would rather just be nestled safely in my bed. Ended up going to bed about an hour after my last writing. And then was woken up to some loud sounds coming from the 3-D printer that I had running, which meant that I had some failed creations that I was making for somebody for Christmas. I’ve been up for a bit, trying to correct the challenge and get things rolling again. Somebody asked me one time what do I l...

Being that it’s the Christmas season, I think on gifts both the giving and receiving of. And I also consider how God offered up his son, knowing what he would endure for our sakes. Having two boys of my own I can’t even imagine what that must’ve been like for God. I endeavor to live a life that is worthy of that gift. I am also reminded that “It is better to give than receive” I think that a lot of people then think that they should ‘only’ give, and shut off their ability to receive bl...

Just got back and got the kids settled after an awesome night of getting to be around beautiful friends, loving family, and people that have become family. After a day full of being there for clients, previous clients, friends, and people who have become like brothers and sisters to me, my family, then got to go pick up a another amazing hearted friend of mine and take her to our Christmas adventure in Seattle. It started with going to Dick’s a burger joint in Seattle. Then it was off to Oly...

Ok so not off to sleep just yet 😁 However you may have found yourself here, please know that you are loved and appreciated for who you are, your spirit, your unique expressions of your divine and Godlike attributes. That you are powerful beyond measure and are of infinite value, just by being who you are. I may not know you yet, but I’m grateful you’re alive and here. I’m going to share with you one of my all time favorite quotes: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deep...

For the Love of my nephew. If you were to check the time you’d notice that it’s just after 1am. That’s because I was 3d printing a very complex gift for my nephew, and it just finished the BIG part. Now I’m not going to say what it is in the slight chance that he may see this and it would ruin the surprise. Now I’m starting the last part which will be another 4ish hours to print, then it’s assembly and testing. But man it’s looking awesome! Gosh I hope to get some sleep tonight. Part...

My hope in writing is to glorify God, his creations and to share light, love, and hope. A few days ago in the midst of running around like a crazy man trying to help as many people that I knew and people that I got to know with flood issues, Christmas gifts and my boys activities my attention was drawn to an evergreen tree by my house. Now this tree, my wife and I have gotten the privilege to see grow from only about 5 feet tall to stretch out and expand into being over 10 feet tall over the...

I’m at church for the first time since I’d made the effort to clean up my relationship with God. It’s an amazing and yet extremely different experience to operate with the intent of being an expression of pure love. I’m noticing the truth in the saying, “ perfect love, cast out all fears” and and as my focus was on love, regardless of how wiggly my boys were or the joyful noises of my youngest that there is a sense of peace and joy. This is further reinforced by one of the talks given in c...

Today I’ve been working through a migraine and an increased sense of weakness and tiredness. My concern is that I may be getting sick. My hope is this is not the case because of the last 3 years someone in my family has been sick over Christmas. I hope and pray that I be healed and be both physically and spiritually available to celebrate the fun Christmas festivities to come. I also hope to be there for the men in the Sundays men’s group. For now I rest and pray fo both healing and re...

Yesterday was tough, I was nonstop with kids, client stuff, Christmas gift plate deliveries, and a brother in need, all while feeling weak tired and depleted. I still chose to be there for my brother and it was extremely helpful for him. Despite the really challenging going things he’s been facing with his family, he was able to find peace and comfort in the present moment. I am honored to have been there for him, and yet it had increased my tiredness. I continue to hope and pray for him a...

I’m feeling a tad under the weather and hope that I can heal up real quick. I’ve committed to help my friend that has had a hellish time with rivers overflowing, winds tearing through their shoppe, and illness. And they’re such beautiful loving people that I want to show up fully for. So I hope to get to rest early today and be back to full power tomorrow. But I don’t have to be feeling good to be expressing good. Pure love casts out all fears. ...

I may have found another brother. I had the chance to talk to a gem of a man named Daniel Won. He’s an extremely charismatic man that loves God, helps people with firearms safety and marksmanship. We connected with our personal journeys of learning what a relationship with God is and how to learn how to be with connection with the godlike attributes so they can flow through us and share light with others. I’m very grateful for men like him that are willing to do the right thing, no matte...

It was totally cold, scary, and worth it. So after a LOT of hesitation, distraction, feet dragging, and procrastination I went out and laid in the stream. For some reason, it was impressed upon me that I bring my underwater, flashlight, and my snorkel gear. So just surrendering and trust to the impressions, I was given, went out and laid in the stream. Like normal I have my alarm set for five minutes, which is normally plenty. And I don’t know if it was because I was already pretty cold o...

I really don’t want to go. It’s cold, rainy, I’d already gone out and did my exercise for today. My body is just warming up from taking boys to the bus, I’m gonna have to find my swim trunks, and running clothes to change into after. But, something is telling me to go and dip back in the stream, exercise some more and then come back and prep for my upcoming client appointment. I’m not excited about it, but it’s what I’m directed to do. So off I go. ...

Just got kiddos off to the bus with bags full of Christmas goodies. My wife stayed up really late last night, cooking and putting together homemade hand decorated cookies, mugs with hot cocoa and marshmallows, and a personalized note to all of the people that are there and have been there for my boys at school. Everyone from the bus drivers to teachers and teacher assistants. And she’s not done yet. That’s probably only about a third of who she would like to share the gift of goodies and l...

Talking With Wolves Early today I got the chance to chat with a great group of men that are making positive impacts in the world around them. One in the field of helping people overcome daily stresses and anxieties, another that helps people learn to have good conversations, and someone that helps people bring their dreams to life by empowering them on the business side. And all of had come together to discuss how we can continue to support and be there for men. I host a weekly call on Su...

There is something special about the joy of a child. This was evident this evening when I was playing with my nephew. I was playing with him and his dad, playing freeze tag, Tickle-Suarus-Rex, and Floor is Lava- Lava monster. The amount of laughter joy and playfulness rang out throughout the house to the point to where his mom that was on the phone was talking about the two big kids and her kid that were running around. And we were for sure doing that. And a lot more. I’m looking forward...

Another man that I love and greatly appreciate is helping bring Christmas Joy to kids and a family this year. His name is Jonathan and he’s delivering presents and household essentials (towels, cleaning supplies, washing machine soap, etc) along with toys for a little boy and girl. It warms my heart to see people looking beyond themselves to see how they can help and express love to others. Especially kids ...

Awaiting a message from my friend that lives by a river in enumclaw to see if they’ll need me to come back and help them move theirs and their neighbors animals and horses. They have had record breaking rainfall and the neighbors that have lived out there for over 40 years said it’s the worst they’ve seen the river. The reason I’m up at 12:00 am is because the biggest challenge for them comes at 12:00 am when the dam releases and a huge influx of water is added to an already overflowing rive...

I don’t hear back from my friends am hoping all is well and if they need me they will reach out. I can only imagine the chaos of a dam opening and not knowing if you’re going to survive the night! I’m amazed at the strength and fortitude it takes to first homestead, and then to also weather the storms that come. All while they keep a positive helpful attitude towards what may come, and how they can help their neighbors as well. I’ll be checking back in with them after my client call in a...

Also I’m feeling a bit physically run down today as I’d been at my friends farm doing prep for possible river damage yesterday for about 5 hours. I still have a sense that going and doing my local stream dip is going to be helpful before going on my walk/run this morning, but I’m also rebelling a bit against what I know is good. But my mind at times can play tricks on me by saying things like, “it’s too cold outside to go and walk to the stream. The stream is too high and rapid because of th...

My friend by the river had gotten back to me just before an important meeting with a potential client. I just finished the client consult. I'm currently texting back and forth with my river friend right now to see if they need me again today or if they'd need me more over the weekend. She's been sending me pics of how much flooding they've been experiencing and how far the White River has encroached on her land. I love her, her wife and the joy and connection to nature that her place bring...

Note to my teenage self, Get out in nature and just walk Appreciate all that is there for you to see, feel, smell, and hear The squirrels scurring up the trees, the sounds of wind blowing through the trees, The feeling of your feet connecting with the ground, Smelling the unique smell the season's air brings Remember your love of exploring and playing in nature with loving friends and family There is healing and peace when you connect to the natural world Here you will find God, Love, and c...

Went to grocery store and found a Brother: My wife went shopping and I took our kids to get their hair cut. Afterwards we went to Fredmayer to meet up with her. In the process of finding her I noticed a man wearing one of the coolest black and white Seahawks hat I’ve seen. I commented on how cool it was and he said he got it at Lids at Southcenter mall and that they inscribed it for him. I didn’t know they personalized them. He also told me that his work hat got inscribed with positiv...

Unexpected Beauty This morning I was rushed to get to my stream dip before heading out to my friends baptism. As I had walked my way down into the water I looked to where the stream was flowing through. There through the plant life that filled the stream from shore to shore fog was lifting. Through the fog the early morning light shone with rays of light piercing the fog and remaining darkness. It was both physically, spiritually, and emotionally invigorating. And although I didn’t ha...

The rain has ceased and the sun has risen. On the way to the baptism my friend that lives by the river messaged me. This was the message she’d sent. Good morning! Everything is good on the land! We are holding strong. I have to rotate animals today and catch up on chores. Looks like I caught a stress cold! I think it would be best to push our Saturday with kiddos to another weekend! Jude is at a close friends house for a Santa party so he wont be here too. I hope you are having a lovely da...

So much awesomeness, it’s hard to note it all. At the baptism there were two boys getting baptized. One is an 8yr old boy that I have an awesome connection with that has an autism diagnosis and is mostly nonverbal. I absolutely love that kid. He was soooo excited to see the waters he was going to be baptized in. The music was beautiful, that talks were nice and there was a lot of love felt for both of the boys. I did get irritated tho at one point. One of the talks was given by a lad...

Out on my walk after an interesting experience with my stream dip this morning. Normally, I will stream dip for five minutes or more, but as I was in the water felt colder more foreign and as I did, what I normally did by facing the current, and then putting the current to my back, it was impressed upon me to leave the water now. I don’t know exactly why that happened but I’m learning more to trust the direction that God is communicating to me so I did. ...

Now I’m out for my walk, listening to the audiobook, of course in miracles and getting ready to be there for the men that will be on the Zoom call today in just 1/2 hour. I’m honored to be in the position to be able to both be there for and have men and strong with and poor to each other and myself. Men need men just like light needs light and trees need trees to intertwine their roots with so they could stand strong against whatever storms may come because together we are brighter and stron...

Miracle of light Today I had the opportunity to gather with a group of men from all over the world. We are shared one aspect of light that we had an opportunity to experience over this last week. I was last to share, and yet what I thought was going to be my share for the week, changed to be getting to experience and feel the light of the impact that others are making and feeling and experiencing in their lives. I feel honored to both be able to host a group of such awesomely hearted men, a...

The Girl Who Believes In Miracles Was the movie my wife and I just got done watching. It reminded me that all men and women are able to create miracles and that all things that are good are of God. And all acts in pure love are miracles. There is a beauty and light in us all that when recognized can not only warm us but also dispel any darkness and amplify that light when we stand together. That Godlike essence that is in all of us, that divine spark, that unique combination of gifts, st...

Today I did not want to get up at all. It was one of those days where you warmth of comfort of my bed kept pulling me back to sleep. I also knew that I would not be going and dipping in my stream today because I have a wound that is in the process of healing and is currently open. And it was only last minute that I decided to try to come out and walk my youngest to school, I’m feeling a little uneasy and not as strong as I normally do. Especially since I skipped my normal waking process ...

So yesterday, my boy that’s in preschool, had taken a tumble fall on his face and got a bloody nose I was amazed that you know of love that is teachers and co-teachers had showed him. They also have fifth graders that assist with the pick up process. I’m very as well. Wanted to make sure that my little man was OK. This was very very heartwarming to see the amount of care for those that are in their care like my little Remi. I really really appreciate your teachers that have been brought int...

I got to visit my spirit brother Matty today to check how the dehumidifier’s working for him. In less than 24hrs we were able to clear his car of over a whole gallon of water! His floorboards are almost dry and back to normal. He was very appreciative of the help and service I’d provided. With all of the flood challenges he and his family have faced it was nice to be able to help out and add some light and positivity in their lives. Despite how off normal I still feel today, it’s nice ...