Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, friends.
I wanted to take a moment to share some reflections on the past year and offer a bit more clarity on where The Contemplative Dad is headed.
Over the last year, it’s been really encouraging to see how deeply the conversation around career, creativity, and calling has resonated.
The frustration so many of us feel with modern work, the desire to build something meaningful, to create, to follow God’s calling — those themes clearly struck a nerve.
I’m grateful for that, and I do want to continue exploring them.
However… This project was never meant to be The Creative Dad or The Entrepreneur Dad.
From the beginning, it was The Contemplative Dad.
That name came from a conviction I felt — and still feel — that we are losing our capacity for silence, stillness, and interior life.
I saw it in myself, and I see it everywhere around us.
There’s a real contradiction here.
The very platforms we use to share ideas are often the same ones contributing to the noise. I’ve wrestled with that contradiction a lot. I don’t want to simply add to the distraction.
If I’m going to show up online, I want the content to send people back into real life — back to their families, their work, their prayer, their communities — with more clarity and intention.
As I look ahead to 2026, I want to widen the lens a bit.
Creative calling still matters deeply to me, but I see it as a subset of a larger mission.
How do we live meaningful lives in our modern world?
That touches everything — how we work, how we eat, how we spend our time, how we build relationships, how we father our children, love our spouses, and listen for God’s voice day to day.
That broader vision is what I want this project to serve.
I also want to be honest about something else.
