Last year a wildfire came within a couple feet of our house. What was green alpine landscape was scorched black, and one of the few houses in our little canyon was burned to the ground. Our place survived the fire, only to be buried by two massive mudslides a couple of weeks later after torrential rain and flash flooding.

No lives were lost, only a canyon full of trees and grass and habitat for the deer, elk, bears, and coyotes that roam our hills. When I was finally allowed back into the canyon after evacuation, it was like driving across another planet’s topography and place in time.

This is a natural process that has cycled since the beginning of time, necessary for the land to regenerate. We were just in the way.

Patience and faith in that kind of process isn’t easy, but it’s nature’s way. And our’s.

Trust the process through your own storms.

Once a week we’re posting my thoughts on the message from each For The Sender chapter, making our way through both books and giving away a book autographed by the For The Sender family each time.

Here’s Chapter 3, Book 1. Have you ever had to trust the process, even through times of devastation and loss, to find that the ‘right’ thing was waiting for you on the other side? Share your story in the comments below and we’ll choose a post and send you a book autographed by the For The Sender family.

That’s my dog Stella, sleeping on the couch beneath a photo of her (jumping in the air), myself, and Kona. Not long after that photo was taken, Kona would die of bone cancer and I’d have to let go of my best friend.

Letting go can create space for more beauty. It’s just easier said that done sometimes.

Once a week we’re posting my thoughts on the message from each For The Sender chapter, making our way through both books and giving away a book autographed by the For The Sender family each time.

Here’s Chapter 2, Book 1. Have you ever had to let of something to find that the space left behind was filled by something beautiful? Share your story in the comments below and we’ll choose a post and send you a book autographed by the For The Sender family.

A while back I received a letter. My friend Sean Watkins and I wrote a song about it called ‘For The Sender,’ about how a letter is like a prayer in that it’s more for the sender.

I had big dreams as a singer-songwriter, some of which came true but left me unfulfilled, and some of which seemed still so far out of reach at the time we wrote that song. Only when I let those dreams go did I find that there was something bigger out there waiting for me, something more beautiful than I could have dreamed of creating: a book, album, and concert event about finding the extraordinary beauty in ordinary lives called For The Sender.

The second book was recently released by Hay House, and along the way I’ve found an amazing friend and supporter in Dr. Wayne W. Dyer and been blessed with experiences I could never have imagined.

So to celebrate, once a week we’ll post my thoughts on the message from each For The Sender chapter, making our way through both books and giving away a book autographed by the For The Sender family each time.

And we’ll start with with Chapter 1, Book 1. Have you ever thought that your dreams wouldn’t come true, only to find that something bigger and far better than you could have imagined was waiting for you? Share your story in the comments below and we’ll choose a post and send you a book autographed by the For The Sender family.