StoryMaster Media

07/03/2026

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Remember when tomorrow felt like a promise?

When we believed that most people were basically good.
When neighbors looked out for each other.
When Christmas wasn't about getting more, but belonging more.

Maybe we haven't lost those things completely.
Maybe we've just forgotten how to find our way back.

This story is my small contribution to that journey—a reminder that one act of kindness can echo for generations.

If your heart has been longing for a little more hope, I'd be honored if you'd watch.

And if it speaks to you, you'll find everything you need to share it with your family, church, or community here.

Steve talks about a time we all thought tomorrow was going to be am...

06/29/2026

Remember when we all thought TOMORROW was going to be AMAZING!?

Check out "Promising the Moon"
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Steve talks about the adventure of voicing Promising the Moon and t...

06/14/2026

A question I've been carrying for a while:

How much of who we present to the world is genuinely us... and how much is the role we've learned to play?

After losing about two years of memory, I discovered that my deepest fear wasn't forgetting facts. It was no longer being able to maintain the image I thought others expected of me.

That realization changed the way I think about identity.

Maybe "coming home" isn't reinventing ourselves.

Maybe it's remembering who we were before fear, approval, and expectation taught us to hide.

A two-minute reflection. I'd be honored if you'd watch.

A question I've been carrying for a while:How much of who we pres...

06/11/2026

There was a moment in my teenage years when I realized something unsettling:
I wasn't always the same person in every room.
The version of me at church wasn't exactly the version at school.
The version others saw wasn't quite the version I argued with inside my own head.
I thought that realization meant something was terribly wrong.
I wonder how many of us have had that moment.
This episode of The Long Way Home begins there.
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When the the thing we hear ourselves being - differs from the thing...

06/09/2026

The Mask - What am I hiding?
There was a moment in my life when I realized something that, looking back, should have been obvious.
The person I was presenting to the world and the person I experienced internally were not exactly the same man.

The Mask - What am I hiding?There was a moment in my life when I ...

06/07/2026

This week we have looked at the notion that we are not as transparent as we would like to claim and asked - WHY?

Who were you before you became the person you thought you had to be?

For years, I thought I was trying to discover who I was.

Now I'm beginning to wonder if the real journey is remembering who I was before fear taught me to perform.

This week's Long Way Home is about masks, identity, and the surprising difference between approval and safety.

"The older I get, the less interested in becoming someone new.
I'm more interested in becoming whole."

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Who were you before you became the person you thought you had to be...

06/04/2026

Have you ever had the uncomfortable feeling that the person everyone knows... isn't exactly the person you experience yourself to be?

I had that realization as a teenager, and it changed the way I saw myself for years.

This isn't a story about deception.

It's a story about identity, fear, and the moment I first realized I was playing a role.

Have you ever had the uncomfortable feeling that the person everyon...

06/02/2026

What if the MASK that we feel we are wearing was actually a very GOOD idea when we adopted it... but may not be serving us anymore?

05/30/2026

Many of us - at some point in time - question how we got were we are. Oh, we worked HARD to get here and for the lucky among us we are very near OURSELVES. But for many we have made really good time - getting to a place that is not really where we need most to be. See less

Most of us come to find out we've been making really good time - getting to a place we never really wanted to go.

05/28/2026

Maslow taught us that after survival needs - food, water - shelter... the next most pressing need is a sense of SAFETY. Not ACTUAL Safety... but the sense that we are ok. The people from whom we get that sense are often the same folks we consider our TRIBE... a group bigger than ourselves ... and that care about us.. even... LOVE us.

Those folks are rarely the ones making all the noise.

Safe people are usually not trying to draw attention...