The Quiet Between Podcast

<p>I want to live a joyful life.</p><p>But I’ve been thinking lately about what that actually means—especially when life isn’t easy.</p><p>Because joy and happiness aren’t quite the same thing. And perhaps living...

<p>Saturday Stories are usually stories from my life.</p><p>This week, I’m doing something a little different.</p><p>When my kids were young, I loved making up stories for them at bedtime. Sometimes they chose the...

<p>There are things I know. Things I think I know. And an enormous number of things I don’t understand at all.</p><p>I’ve discovered that I rather like it that way.</p><p>In today’s reflection, I’m wandering through...

<p>I was never a great hitter.</p><p>But a friend on our church softball team had spent most of the season trying to help me change that—only with very limited success.</p><p>Then came this one hot August...

<p>We remember so many of life’s firsts. Last times are different. They usually pass quietly—a hand that once slipped naturally into ours, a family gathering, a familiar walk, an ordinary moment we assumed would happen...

<p>During my freshman year of college, I worked the early-morning janitorial shift from 4:00 to 7:00 a.m. in the athletic facility.</p><p>One morning, someone handed me a commercial floor-cleaning machine and sent me...

<p>Every day, our lives intersect with people we recognize but barely know—the neighbor we wave to, the person ahead of us in line, the stranger across a waiting room. </p><p>For a few moments, their lives brush against...

<p>What is it about coming home?</p><p>Sometimes it happens before we even reach the front door.</p><p>A familiar street.</p><p>A landmark we’ve seen a thousand times.</p><p>A place filled with ordinary moments we never...

<p>Welcome to Saturday Stories—a new corner of The Quiet Between where we’re going to have a bit of fun each week.</p><p>No profound lesson.</p><p>No great question to ponder.</p><p>Sometimes, life is just...

<p>Music has been part of my life since I was five years old.</p><p>I’ve spent decades practicing, performing, conducting, teaching, and working diligently to place the right notes in the right place at exactly the...

<p>I’ve never really given much thought to window screens.</p><p>Until one morning...</p><p>...I realized they might have been teaching me something all along.</p><p>This week’s reflection isn’t really about...

<p>Once in a while, it’s good to laugh at the wonderful and sometimes awful frustrations we all experience.</p><p>Today’s One More Story Before Bed isn’t a profound life lesson or a calming quiet reflection. </p><p>It’s...

<p>Rain has a way of waking up old memories.</p><p>For one person, it sounds like childhood. For another, it recalls someone they love. And for someone else, it carries a story they rarely speak about.</p><p>In this...

<p>There was a time when front porches were more than part of a house. They were places where conversations lingered, stories were told, opinions were shared and valued, neighbors became friends, and life was observed...

<p>Most of us are far better at remembering our disappointments than recognizing our resilience. </p><p>We tend to focus on the challenges ahead of us and overlook the countless joyful and difficult moments we’ve...