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 →
Scripture “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.”James 1:2–3 Opening Thought Struggle is not a sign of God's absence.It is often the proof of His presence. Difficulty awakens desire.Hardship strengthens the heart.Pain produces perseverance.Criticism refines calling. What... Continue Reading →
Jeremiah 20:9 – “His word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.” There is a fire coming—one like we have not seen before.It will be out of our control.It will reshape landscapes, change the infrastructure of cities, and... Continue Reading →
Get up. Get moving. Shake off the dust. You’ve been stuck. You feel out of control. There’s a canyon between where you are and where you want to be, and every step feels like wading through molasses. Not enough. Not tall enough. Not smart enough. Not worthy enough. The spaghetti of anxious thoughts trips you—untied... 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 →
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 →
This week, our nation was rocked once again by disturbing headlines. But it's not the bad news I want to focus on—it's our response to it. Bad news isn’t new.It’s been with us since the beginning—since the Garden.To romanticize the past as “better times” is to deny the truth: it’s always been broken. But to... 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 →
When I was younger, they called me Worrywart. I worried about everything—big or small. The weather, sports, sickness, health, the past, the future—you name it. But what consumed me most was worry about myself. What was going on inside me? Why did I feel so uncertain about who I was or what would become of... Continue Reading →
Defeating the Lizard Brain I get scared every time I write a blog. Putting a piece of yourself out for the world to see is both exhilarating and exhausting. Hiding always feels safer. But we are like this, you and I—we have what scientists call the Lizard Brain. The Lizard Brain is the primitive part... 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 →
"End of Construction-Thank you for your Patience" We are all under construction. Construction is complete when we die. Until then show some grace to others including yourself. Construction is messy! It is dangerous to believe you are the only one with a mess. We are ALL under construction. When we believe we are all in... 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 →
Resist the urge to blend in. Blending in is easy and builds the wrong kind of muscles, the easy muscles. Instead build the weird kind of muscles, the kind that gains the type of results you want anyways. Need some help? Try these as some examples of ways to be weird and build weird muscles:... Continue Reading →
Sometimes we end up somewhere different than we intended. Detours are God's way of getting our attention to check the road we are on and make course corrections. Don't dismiss the detour, embrace the change of scenery. Ask yourself the simple question, "What can I take away from this detour?". Application: When was the last... Continue Reading →
Cul-de-sacs stunt growth. To kill the cul-de-sac you have to go back to the beginning to start again. Sometimes reverse is progress. Cul-de-sacs frustrate the one driving and makes passengers car sick. Cul-de-sacs exist so you will not stay there. Choose to exit the cul-de-sac the way you came in and get back on the... Continue Reading →
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