My heart to encourage your heart
A conversation with Dave Scott Q: Dave, what is one thought you can offer people as they leave behind 2025 and enter into 2026? A: It’s important that we give ourselves permission to pause and reflect. The little mirror on the side of the car is called the rearview mirror—take a moment and look at... Continue Reading →
Father, forgive me—for when I believed it was my strengththat made it all happen. Forgive me for taking each breathas though the next one were guaranteed,forgetting that You are my food,my sustenance,my very supply. Forgive me for believing I had made iton my own,for trusting my intellect,my discipline,my effort more than Your mercy. Forgive me... Continue Reading →
What I’m Learning in This Season of Loss I am learning a great deal about loss—through the passing of my mom, my dad, and my brother, and even from the losses that marked the beginning of my life with biological parents I never met. None of this is a sad song; it is simply a... Continue Reading →
“Write It Anyways” We only get one shot on planet earth.At birth, we are handed a pen — and from that moment forward, we begin to write the story of our lives. Page after page, day after day, the ink flows. Sometimes the pen is wrenched from our hands and others write upon our tablet.... Continue Reading →
Birthdays continue to come quickly. Life is like the morning fog—here for a little while, then gone. Suffering is meant to scour your heart. Doing something uncomfortable on purpose will inspire you. If we always travel the easy path, we will get shallow. True life is lived in the place where risk is involved. Over-sanitizing... Continue Reading →
We live in a world more connected than ever before, yet somehow more disconnected. Phones buzz, social media scrolls endlessly, but real connection feels scarce. Researchers now call it the epidemic of loneliness. But let me ask you a more personal question: How are you doing? When was the last time someone really asked you... Continue Reading →
Every day, at midnight, we are each given three imaginary coins.They cannot be saved. They cannot be carried over to tomorrow.They can only be spent in the day we are in. We have complete freedom to decide where those coins go.Some will spend all three in one place—on work, parenting, or a single passion.Others will... Continue Reading →
Cognitive decline sucks. Watching a life slowly etched away is like watching waves steadily reshape the shoreline—grain by grain, day by day. Little by little, the configuration changes. The visuals shift. The familiar aesthetics fade. And yet, to the onlooker, it’s almost imperceptible. In our mind’s eye, we still see the person they used to... Continue Reading →
Social Media: The Cancer of Our Day Social media is the cancer of our day. It rots the bones, steals the soul, kills creativity, and replaces imagination with a worship of falsehood. There’s nothing real about the “real” it sells. It is the epidemic of reality— a mirage dressed as authenticity. You think you’re seeing... Continue Reading →
The irony of connection today is this: We must turn off to tune in. Turn off Bluetooth. Turn off Wi-Fi. Turn off the device. Only then can we abide in the Vine. This is the lunacy of our age— Where attention is the commodity, And inattention is the greatest theft. Focus is rare. Stillness is... Continue Reading →
I’m not the man I want to be.And yet, at times, I am the man I long to become.This daily tension is a wrestling match—a battle to live fully alive, fully blossoming, fully in bloom. What would it be like to live in a state of full bloom—not just glimpses of glory, but regular, sustained... Continue Reading →
Creator God hung the sky and sustains it still, with one snap of His finger it can all come down. God is to be trusted; man is to be tested before being trusted. Three things can destroy preachers: girls, gold, and glory. Your perception of yourself may be false. I am the hardest person on... Continue Reading →
I’m learning something countercultural: happiness is not found outside of ourselves—in circumstances, achievements, or acquisitions. It must come from within. More specifically, from within the identity God has formed in us. As Christians, we are taught to humble ourselves, to esteem others, and to understand our place in God’s Kingdom. But we often miss this:... Continue Reading →
"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self." Benjamin Franklin If I had one wish I would wish for a map telling me exactly where I am in my life right now. Why this wish? Because if I know where I am I can chart where to go next.... Continue Reading →
So, you've gone on several dates and ended up all stinky. What’s going on here? Are you picking the wrong people? Are there even good people worth picking? Do you need the latest dating app or best-selling dating book? Maybe. But chances are there’s something deeper going on here... Maybe you're dumpster diving for dates.... Continue Reading →
Every day, at midnight, we are each given three imaginary coins.They cannot be saved. They cannot be carried over to tomorrow.They can only be spent in the day we are in. We have complete freedom to decide where those coins go.Some will spend all three in one place—on work, parenting, or a single passion.Others will... Continue Reading →
Like gold to the goldsmith, fresh water to the dry mouth, steady wind to the sail, this is what genuine friendship is like. Friends fill up and build up. Friends see what you can't and share the possibility. Friends laugh with you and are for you. Friends seek to understand your inside world. Do you... Continue Reading →
It feels like a wet blanket on a humid day. It smells like a wet dog. It feels like a rock in your shoe. It looks like a beautiful blue sky day turned gray. It leaks. It creeps through the windows of your heart. It is like water over a sandcastle. It is suffocating. It... Continue Reading →
"Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?" Matthew 6:26 God knows we worry. He thought of us when He created the birds. You see the birds are our constant... Continue Reading →
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