Along life's journey, I've found fear to be a debilitating emotion and acting out of fear to be spiritually counter-productive. I've observed that I can't really walk in faith and fear at the same time. They cancel each other out. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 56. Text version can always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

Parenting is one of the grand adventures of this life journey. It has produced the greatest of joys and the deepest of sorrows. It has humbled me to my core, and has equipped Lady Sophia with some of the most powerful practicums for teaching me wisdom. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 55. Text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

Along this life journey, I also encounter moments when I feel pinned down by circumstances stacked against me. There are times when I feel like I'm stumbling around with the darkness closing in. I have flashes when my prayer feels like Princess Leia's hologram. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 54. Text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

David wrote Psalm 14 to mean one thing during his life and his generation, but a subsequent generation took the same song, the same lyrics, and made it about another thing. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 54. Text version can found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

This morning I find in David an example to follow. Pouring out and expressing my rage, frustration, accusation and consciously handing over that which I am powerless to do to God. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 52. Text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

David did everything right. David was devout. David was faithful. David was sincere. David was God's man through-and-through...until he wasn't. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 51. Text version can be found/shared at tomvanderwell.com.

Mindlessly going through religious motions is of no real value, and I believe that this is one of the reasons why denominations are imploding and churches are closing in record numbers. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 50. Text version available at tomvanderwell.com.

Consider the fact that rich-and-poor, wise-and-foolish, good-and-bad all end up in the same place and leave everything behind. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 49. Text versions of every chapter-a-day podcast can be found at tomvanderwell.com.

In my spiritual journey, I've come to believe it vital to identify and regularly visit a thin place. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 48. Text versions of every chapter-a-day podcast can be found at tomvanderwell.com.