I AM CAMERON PAPE, HUSBAND TO KARLEE.
DAD TO LILLY, ATTICUS, DEAN, AND EMERLYN.
I try my best to follow Jesus, love my family well, and live a life worth telling.
I don’t always get it right. In many cases, I get it wrong. Most of what I write here, I’m still learning how to live myself. These aren’t answers, they’re lessons I’ve learned, things I’m still wrestling with, thoughts on faith and theology as I spend more time in the Bible, poetry I’m writing, and a few rules for the road I’m trying to follow along the way.
I’m writing as much to remind and challenge myself as I am to share any of it with you.
If something here strengthens your faith, gives you something to think about, or simply helps you along your own road, then it was worth writing.
Because after all, as Matthew McConaughey put it, “Sometimes we don’t need advice. Sometimes we just need to hear we’re not the only one.”
Rules for the Road
There’s no rhyme or reason to these rules. Some I learned the hard way. Some I borrowed from people wiser than me. Some I’m still trying to live myself. They’re just things I’ve picked up along the road that have helped life make a little more sense. And the funny thing is, the more I write them down, I’m still not convinced life makes much sense at all.
The Long Way Home
Following Jesus may be the longest and hardest road you will ever travel, but it is the road that leads us home. Here you’ll find sermons I’ve preached reimagined in blog form, alongside thoughts on Scripture, theology, and what God is teaching me along the way. Some will offer convictions, others will wrestle with questions that have no easy answers, but all of them are part of the journey home.
The Tavern Bard
Everyone likes a good story, a good rhythm, a good rhyme something that makes you laugh, makes you remember, or maybe makes you think a little longer than you planned. I’m trying my hand at poetry, both long form and short, telling stories and putting words to the things I’ve seen, felt, and picked up. So pull up a chair and stay awhile, not everything needs explaining, some things are simply worth hearing.