When was the last time you experienced true inner stillness or true silence? When I ask this question of most people, they tell me they can’t remember.

Join me this week as we stand for a while in the quiet beside the Brazos River and then consider ways of becoming still from the inside out. Stay with me. I think you’ll like what you hear.

What’s the difference between what we think from one moment to the next and what we deeply and innately know? And how do we become still enough to listen and tell them apart?

Join Scott this week as he considers the knowing that is always beneath the surface of our very busy habits of thinking. We'll take a quiet step into the gap between our thoughts and become even more aware of the clarity that is ready to reveal itself in every moment.

During this extraordinary time, here is a brief Beautiful Question message of encouragement and hope.

Join me in a consideration of what each of us can do to be in control of ourselves and our situation, including reaching out and connecting in meaningful ways.

We call people who overcome strong odds heroes, but are they? Or they are people just like you and me who have tapped into an innate force within themselves—the strength and the will and the focus to keep going?

Join me this week as we consider what it takes to refuse to give in and refuse to give up, no matter what we are facing.

What are the best responses when things around us become serious or critical? What options do we have? And more importantly, how do we keep ourselves calm and focused regardless of what’s happening around us? Join me this week as we consider these and other beautiful questions in this time of unprecedented change, both here and around the world.

Have you ever wandered away from yourself and couldn’t find the clear path that would lead you back?

Join me this week as I share a beautiful story about exactly that.

Stay with me and meet a luminous girl named Lucia.

So, just how much is your life worth—in dollars? If you had unlimited resources, how much would you be willing to pay to get back some of the days you’ve lived or some of the experiences you’ve had or the mistakes you’ve made? You already know the answer. We don’t get to do that. We only have now.

Stay with me this week as we consider how to make living in the present as meaningful and rewarding as we can.

This week, I’m departing a bit from my regular format to share some thoughts with you about these newsletters and podcasts and about what’s been happening as we build the new Beautiful Question website. The process continues to inspire me, and it strengthens my commitment to take what I’m sharing with you to an even more meaningful place. Join me as we consider the age we’re living in and ways of moving forward together to build something good for all of us.

When we’re young, we often think about growing up, but the idea of growing down rarely—if ever—crosses our mind. But, then, why would it, after all, we have our whole lives ahead us. Why would we waste our time thinking about something we can’t see or hear or get our hands on? Why bother?

Stay with me this week as we consider the importance of growing down in ways that strengthen and deepen our lives.

As essential as silence is, finding it and settling into it can be something of a challenge in the middle of our constant busyness. Yet, as someone once told me, the rewards can be wonderful!

Join me as we consider the nature of silence, where to find it, and how to build a warm and abiding relationship with it.