Drift less live more

“Drrifting is easy. The current decides for you. Living more means waking up to your life and choosing where you actually want to go.”
—RD
DEPTHLINE
Some of my clearest moments happen out on a surfboard. There’s nothing else like it, sitting in the lineup, reading the ocean, waiting for the right wave. You’re surrounded by people, but you’re also completely alone with your thoughts. You can process, breathe, reset, and still chase something unpredictable.
Every wave has its own story. Sometimes, you paddle so hard for the wave only to watch it roll right past. Other times, you catch it effortlessly. Some days, the paddle-out is exhausting as wave after wave pounds you. On other days, you glide smoothly as if the ocean opened a lane just for you. Surfing reveals what’s inside you. It teaches resilience, timing, trust, courage, and patience…spiritual skills long before we call them spiritual.
That’s why I’m writing Depthline.
A “depthline” is where deep water meets the shallows and creates waves worth riding. Spiritually, that’s also where growth happens; the deep undercurrents of God’s presence intersect with the everyday grind of life.
Depthline is a one-year journey from Genesis to Revelation and into spiritual disciplines: daily habits that build spiritual readiness and keep you grounded when life hits unexpectedly hard. Each day is short enough to read in about five minutes, yet powerful enough to reset your day.
I hope you enjoy this and that you experience the deep undercurrents of His presence.
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“Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, ‘Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it.’” — Genesis 28:16 SOUNDING Jacob wakes up from his ladder dream a little disoriented. Nothing around him has changed. The ground is still hard. The road ahead is still uncertain. The consequences behind him…
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“And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven.” — Genesis 28:12 SOUNDING Jacob is not on a spiritual retreat. He is running for his life, away from his brother, Esau. He has deceived his brother, fractured his family, and fled into…
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“Thus Esau despised his birthright.” — Genesis 25:34 SOUNDING Jacob and Esau grow up side by side, but they grow in opposite directions. Esau becomes a man of the field, physical, instinctive, driven by what is right in front of him. Jacob stays near the tents, observant, patient, always thinking a few steps ahead. One…