Nomad Chronicles

Home is Calling: South Fork

By |2025-03-28T05:08:02+00:00March 28th, 2025|Home, Memoirs, Nomad Chronicles, Sacred Journey|

I returned home to a sacred place in the region in the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest. It’s a place where in my teens I experienced God in a substantial way. Just a few miles out of the town where I lived, I would often hop on my motorcycle and make my way to the picnic and trailhead area of the South Fork Colorado River that could be reached by driving down a winding road into the park area. Covered by the vegetation of the area, and home to ponderosa pine that made an awning in the little valley there, it seemed that no matter how hot the day was, the shade there would knock the temperature [...]

Home is Calling: Rerooting

By |2025-03-19T04:09:02+00:00March 18th, 2025|Home, Nomad Chronicles|

Sometimes in our journey home we have to be far enough away from it to return with new eyes. Call it what you will, a repentance of the soul and mind, or fresh, new ways of seeing. In my journey to the Pacific Northwest I pushed myself (with my family) as far as I could to the ocean in the Olympic National Forest. The beauty of the Northwest is captivating. When you’ve grown accustomed to the dry desert that seems to cry out for and devour any moisture that Mother Nature will gift it, it’s astonishing to be in a climate where the clouds generously pour forth rain and the ground is so bloated that it [...]

Home is Calling: Mountain Tops

By |2025-03-13T03:46:51+00:00March 8th, 2025|Home, Nomad Chronicles|

I’ve recently been listening to a series by the Bible Project in which they highlight that “in ancient Israel’s imagination, the mountain is where the heavenly realm in the skies meets the human realm on land. In this place, people can access God’s wisdom and power and his very presence.” It’s in this place where Heaven and earth meet, and in this narrative, we see how the presence of God comes down to dwell with people in the tabernacle in the Old Testament, then in the availability of the Holy Spirit through Christ's incarnation and resurrection. I highly recommend it, and it has been a suiting accompaniment in my hikes up literal mountains. It has been [...]

Home is Calling

By |2025-03-02T22:33:24+00:00March 2nd, 2025|Home, Nomad Chronicles|

Home again. A common denominator in my spiritual journey over the years has been the idea/identity of being a visitor, and in this metaphorical way of thinking, "home" is Heaven. I've quite literally been a bit of a nomad too, but we see this idea in Scripture woven all throughout its text. Scripture is written to an exilic people, strangers, and foreigners, and "home" is the place of union with God - back to Eden. But the idea of home has changed for me over the years. Back in 2008, I began a project - a trilogy, called “The Nomad Chronicles.” It was to be an opus of life - my dusty, unlikely journey of chasing [...]

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