by Natalie Ogbourne | | Navigate by Faith
When it comes to navigating the landscape of life, I find it dishearteningly easy to drift toward reacting in fear or finding my way by feel rather than walking by faith. Maybe you know what that’s like. One practice that helps me stay on course is to pay attention....
by Natalie Ogbourne | | Navigate by Faith
For Yellowstone’s bison, it’s the end of this season that’s most dangerous. They’ve spent the winter foraging for frozen foliage by swinging their heads back and forth through the snow like a bucket on an excavator. After a long winter...
by Natalie Ogbourne | | Navigate by Faith
For more years than I care to admit, July 1 has settled in with a heavy sense of loss. Summer, I believed, was almost over. This is as unhelpful as it is untrue. How can a season that was born just days before be nearly at its end? Maturity is teaching me to take on...
by Natalie Ogbourne | | Navigate by Faith
One practice I use to keep me oriented to the features of the landscape of my life is to list the season’s gifts and graces. It’s a simple way to fix my eyes on the good so I can do my part to foster a hopeful perspective and healthy mindset. The list is...
by Natalie Ogbourne | | Navigate by Faith
Of the practices I use to foster a hopeful perspective and healthy mindset, keeping a list of the season’s gifts and graces is the simplest. Somewhere along the line, I started rearranging it into a bell shape and now I can’t really stop. This...