Top Five of 2024!
The Most Read Posts on Deep Calls to Deep This Year
Leading up to my new book Deep Calls to Deep: Meditations for Your Spiritual Journey, Vol. 1, which is available for preorder now (Amazon | Viewpoint | Barnes and Noble) and the ideal Christmas gift for your friends and family, I will be counting down the Top 10 Most Read Posts this year. Here are the TOP 5 posts of 2024!
#5 - Floral Footprints
Floral Footprints
We went to Seattle during Spring Break—the whole family. Calendars miraculously and fortuitously aligned, but it took four years of patient waiting. Our initial reservations were interrupted in March of 2020 by an initial outbreak of coronavirus in Washington state. That simultaneously feels like a decade ago and just yesterday.
#4 - The Road to Auschwitz
Standing in Auschwitz
The summer sun’s warmth quickly disappeared as we found ourselves enveloped by the cold, oppressive walls of the gas chamber. Silence fell over our group, a heavy, suffocating quiet that seemed to echo the horrors once witnessed there. As the door closed behind us, I moved through the crowd, pressing my back against the unsympathetic surface, and closed…
#3 - The Not Very Neighborly Lesson
The Not Very Neighborly Lesson
We have lived in our Sandy Hook neighborhood for over twenty years. Many good people have come and gone during that time, either by moving or passing away. I was recently reminded of some next-door neighbors we had when we first moved in—an older gentleman and his wife, both in their late 90s.
#2 - A Valentine’s Day Tale at White Castle
A Valentine's Day Tale at White Castle
My wife suggested that we go to White Castle for Valentine's Day. I suspect this clever overture had something to do with us having a twelve-year-old son. For a pre-teen boy, there is no greater expression of love than little square hamburgers, a bag of onion chips, and a soda machine that allows every variation and concoction of flavors to be mixed tog…
#1 - Before I Die
Before I Die
From the time I walked into a shoe store’s bathroom two years ago to this morning, sitting at the dining room table to write this, I have spent more hours contemplating this picture than almost any other picture I have ever seen. Granted, it’s just a photo of the side of a building with three simple words, “Before I Die.” However, the interactive nature…
That’s a wrap on 2024! Thank you for journeying with me this year. I am looking forward to where we will go next year.
Question
Which post resonated with you the most this year and why? Leave your comments below.
Peace,
Brandon
Deep Calls to Deep: Meditations for Your Spiritual Journey, Vol. 1
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