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So I went fishing with my girlfriend yesterday on Lake Sylvia, MN. Our relationship is only two months old, but it already feels very deep and meaningful.  Neither of us are looking for a boyfriend or girlfriend to just occupy a role.  We’re both looking for a life-long partner to enjoy this journey of lifeRead more

I’m sitting on a deck overlooking a Minnesota garden right now.  I’m graduating school next week and pondering the next  move I have to make in my life.  I’m kind of nervous and afraid of what may be coming next and I feel like I’m jumping off a cliff into the unknown. I’m just oneRead more

This story proves three powerful steps work when making new friends. It is about how I met one of my best friends, and how this website came to be.  Here are the steps I recommend: Be honest.  Be vulnerable.  If they don’t like you after you do those two steps, you weren’t meant to be friends, andRead more

            Check out our new website!  I love our new home!  We’ve moved to https://purposepages.com/             Here is the account of the most amazing prayer stories you will ever hear.  It’s about how we moved into this new website home. After you hear this, you will see that God is supporting us.Read more

            Last night I sat in our cabin boathouse strumming a guitar in my hands.  It was getting close to midnight and there was a storm brewing across the lake.  The lightning was crackling and flashing in the sky.  My heart beat faster the closer the storm got and I couldRead more

I’m leave to go fishing this morning in the northern waters of Minnesota.  The fishing season opens this weekend, and I’m leaving with a group of men seeking an adventure in modern America.             I awoke drinking a mountain dew this morning as I prepare for the trip.  Sometimes I like a different taste thanRead more

    Last night I laid in bed and couldn’t sleep.  I felt waves of depression creeping over me like a snake.  I think we all have nights like this.  I’m always pushing myself to make the right decisions, holding myself accountable to reach such a high standard, but sometimes reality catches up to me andRead more

            I think we sometimes forget how awesome our education system is this country.              Sometimes we forget how brilliant it is supposed to make us.  But really it doesn’t make all of us that brilliant.  It’s just a norm.             But there is a better way.  Let’s create aRead more

            I live in Minnesota and spring weather brings flashes of warm and cold weather.  Perfect example:  It was beautiful earlier, and now it’s snowing as I write this.  The instability also inspires a lot of interesting, unusual storms of thought to develop in my mind.              This morning, I looked outsideRead more

I had a close friend years ago who would always ask everyone he met, “So if you were an animal what type of animal would you be?”  He loved that question because it immediately opened a portal into the soul of the individual and revealed to him how they identify themselves with the world. IRead more