by Chris Maxwell | Jan 22, 2018 | Blog, Book Excerpts
Music and memory can be friends. What are your favorite songs? Why do you like them? What are the songs which best describe your own underwater story? Why did you select those songs? What part of the song brings tears? What part brings laughter? What part brings hope?...
by Chris Maxwell | Oct 26, 2017 | Blog, Book Excerpts
Through Pause for Pastors, I have offered stories and ideas about slowing our pace, balancing our lives, and taking better care of ourselves. In this chapter, I invite us to balance attitudes of submissiveness to those in authority while living an autonomous life. We...
by Chris Maxwell | Oct 23, 2017 | Blog, Book Excerpts
Mr. Worrier stands on shore and stares at the water. He analyzes nature’s strategy and studies rhythm, motion, balance. He knows the crest reveals height as it contrasts the trough. The current keeps motion moving and moving and moving as he remains still, only...
by Chris Maxwell | Oct 16, 2017 | Blog, Book Excerpts
I’m typing these words after an interesting day. I spent the morning—and the last few days—in a denomination’s conference where leaders were elected and policies were presented. Honesty, I don’t care for some of the structure. But I did love the time with other...
by Chris Maxwell | Sep 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
I’ve known Chris as a writer for probably twenty-five years or more; however, the first time I met him face-to-face was five weeks after he was diagnosed with viral encephalitis. Although most of the people who knew him discovered that he had become a new Chris, I...
