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Roadside Notes is a Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading — short, soulful reflections written and read by Christopher Tuttle, The Route 66 Chaplain. Each episode is a five-minute stop along the highway: a story, a thought, a quiet moment for the soul. No sermons, no spotlight — just roadside faith, diner-table wisdom, and the sound of grace still traveling well. 🛣️ New readings every week. 🎧 Read more stories or join the Roadside Club at faithandgoodcourage.com

  1. 1d ago

    The Man Who Was the Building | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep52

    The Man Who Was the Building didn't introduce himself. He didn't need to. You understood who he was the moment you walked through the door at Hackberry General Store and saw him moving behind the counter with the quiet ease of someone who had been doing this long enough that the place and the person had become the same thing. Mary and I had stopped in on one of those Route 66 afternoons where the plan is loose and the road is doing the deciding. While we were there a group came in from somewhere far enough away that English wasn't the first thing they reached for. He didn't hesitate. Didn't look for someone else to handle it. He just moved toward them the way he moved toward everyone else and started doing what he did. Pointing. Nodding. Smiling the specific smile of a man who has learned that kindness doesn't actually require words to travel. They understood him perfectly. Because genuine welcome doesn't have an accent. The towns that refused to die didn't survive on their own. They survived because somebody inside them refused to leave. Refused to stop caring. Refused to let the bypass have the last word. He was that somebody for Hackberry. This week's Roadside Notes is about what it looks like when a person and a place become the same thing. And what the counter looks like from both sides. 📖 Read the full Journal entry: https://faithandgoodcourage.com/2026/09/03/the-man-who-was-the-building/ 🎙️ Roadside Notes is a reading series from the Faith and Good Courage Journal, stories of grace, grit, and second chances written and read by Christopher Tuttle, The Route 66 Chaplain. #FaithAndGoodCourage #faithgoodcourage #Route66Chaplain #ChristopherTuttle #RoadsideWisdom #Rule66 #HealingHighway #KindnessForTheRoad #QuietStrength #TheCompassionDeficit #WitWisdomAndDinerMoments #GraceOnTheGo #route66 #matthew25lives #Route66Centennial

    The Man Who Was the Building | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep52

  2. Aug 27

    The Boy Who Wanted to Watch | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep51

    The Boy Who Wanted to Watch wasn't causing trouble. He just wanted to see everything. The lifts going up. The air guns spinning lug nuts off. The machines that balanced the tires. Jacob was seven years old and the whole place was a laboratory and nobody had told him yet that he was supposed to sit still and look at a screen. I was only supposed to be there five minutes. Tire pressure check on my way through Kingman. In and out. Back on the road. That was the plan until I walked into the waiting area and saw a young woman trying to hold herself together while simultaneously trying to keep a very curious seven year old from pressing his nose against every window in the place. Her name was Terry. She had blown a tire just outside of Kingman on I-40. She was a waitress, a part time dental hygiene student, and a single mom on her way to New Mexico to bury someone she loved. Jacob needed someone to take his questions seriously and answer them straight. Terry needed someone to tell her she was in a good place and that she was going to be okay. Neither of those things took a lot. They just took showing up and paying attention and being willing to stay a little longer than planned. My five minute stop turned into an hour I never planned and wouldn't trade. 📖 Read the full Journal entry: https://faithandgoodcourage.com/2026/08/27/the-boy-who-wanted-to-watch/ 🎙️ Roadside Notes is a reading series from the Faith and Good Courage Journal, stories of grace, grit, and second chances written and read by Christopher Tuttle, The Route 66 Chaplain. #FaithAndGoodCourage #faithgoodcourage #Route66Chaplain #ChristopherTuttle #RoadsideWisdom #Rule66 #HealingHighway #KindnessForTheRoad #QuietStrength #TheCompassionDeficit #WitWisdomAndDinerMoments #GraceOnTheGo #route66 #matthew25lives

    The Boy Who Wanted to Watch | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep51

  3. Aug 20

    The Centennial Seeker | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep50

    The Centennial Seeker found me before I found him. I was halfway through breakfast at a Route 66 diner when I heard him ask the waitress about the towns. The ones that had every reason to dry up and blow away and somehow didn't. She listened politely, smiled, and pointed right at me. So he pulled up a stool and we got to talking. Pete from Kentucky wasn't really asking about the towns at all. He was asking about himself. Twenty two years of sixty hour weeks and a morning where he finally looked up from the work long enough to realize he couldn't remember the last time he had done something just because he wanted to. He didn't ease into it. Didn't plan a sabbatical. He just stopped. Handed in his notice, packed what fit in the car, and pointed it west. Two flat tires before he hit the Oklahoma state line. A water pump that gave up in the middle of nowhere. A cracked windshield courtesy of a truck tire outside of Holbrook. And a breakfast on a curb in Flagstaff with a homeless woman that he called one of the best twenty minutes of the whole trip. This week's Roadside Notes is about what happens when the weight of everything you've been carrying gets heavier than the fear of letting it go. The towns that refused to die didn't survive because everything went right. They survived because the people in them learned to sit with the hard parts long enough to find what was still worth saving. Pete from Kentucky was doing the same thing. One mile at a time. 📖 Read the full Journal entry: https://faithandgoodcourage.com/2026/08/20/the-centennial-seeker/ 🎙️ Roadside Notes is a reading series from the Faith and Good Courage Journal, stories of grace, grit, and second chances written and read by Christopher Tuttle, The Route 66 Chaplain. #FaithAndGoodCourage #faithgoodcourage #Route66Chaplain #ChristopherTuttle #RoadsideWisdom #Rule66 #HealingHighway #KindnessForTheRoad #QuietStrength #TheCompassionDeficit #WitWisdomAndDinerMoments #GraceOnTheGo #route66 #matthew25lives #Route66Centennial

    The Centennial Seeker | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep50

  4. Aug 13

    If It's Your Calling, It Will Keep Calling | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep 49

    If It's Your Calling, It Will Keep Calling. You've probably seen that on a coffee mug or a piece of wall art somewhere. Maybe you smiled at it. Maybe it stopped you for just a second longer than you expected and you weren't quite sure why. I met a man outside of Flagstaff who knew exactly why. He just hadn't said it out loud yet. He was in sales. Good at it too. Comfortable salary, company car, a territory he knew cold. But within ten minutes of sitting down he was talking about the classroom. Not his classroom. Not anymore. The one he left fourteen years ago when the numbers stopped making sense and a recruiter called at exactly the right moment with exactly the wrong opportunity. He wasn't complaining. He was just talking. The way people talk when they've been carrying something long enough that it starts coming out sideways in conversations with strangers over bad coffee. But the classroom kept showing up. In the way his eyes changed when he mentioned a nephew he had been helping with math. In the way he said the word teacher like it still belonged to him even though he hadn't used it in over a decade. Callings don't leave. They just wait. With a patience that is honestly a little unsettling when you think about it too long. This week's Roadside Notes is for anyone who has been running from something that keeps finding them. Stop running long enough to ask why it keeps showing up. It's been calling a long time. It's not going to stop. 📖 Read the full Journal entry: https://faithandgoodcourage.com/2026/08/13/if-its-your-calling/ 🎙️ Roadside Notes is a reading series from the Faith and Good Courage Journal, stories of grace, grit, and second chances written and read by Christopher Tuttle, The Route 66 Chaplain. #FaithAndGoodCourage #faithgoodcourage #Route66Chaplain #ChristopherTuttle #RoadsideWisdom #Rule66 #HealingHighway #KindnessForTheRoad #QuietStrength #TheCompassionDeficit #WitWisdomAndDinerMoments #GraceOnTheGo #route66 #matthew25lives

  5. Aug 6

    The Detour Called Self-Doubt | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep48

    The Detour Called Self-Doubt doesn't announce itself. It doesn't put up a sign or flash a warning light. It just quietly redirects you and before you know it you're sitting on the hood of your car at a gas station just off the highway staring at your phone like the answer is in there somewhere. I pulled off for fuel on a stretch of road that doesn't offer a lot of options. There was one other car at the pumps. A man, maybe mid-forties, sitting on his hood with his phone in both hands and the look of someone who had been there a while. Not lost. Not broken down. Just stopped. He was on his way to the job interview he had been working toward for two years. He had driven three hours that morning to get there. And now he was sitting in the Mojave Desert talking himself out of it. That's the thing about self-doubt that nobody warns you about. It doesn't show up when you're unprepared. It shows up when you're ready. The ones who make it three hours down the road and then stop are the ones who wanted it badly enough to get there. Self-doubt is not the enemy of readiness. It's the proof of it. This week's Roadside Notes is for anyone sitting on the hood of their life right now waiting for permission. Get back in the car. Finish the drive. The road already knew you were ready. 📖 Read the full Journal entry: https://faithandgoodcourage.com/2026/08/06/the-detour-called-self-doubt/ 🎙️ Roadside Notes is a reading series from the Faith and Good Courage Journal, stories of grace, grit, and second chances written and read by Christopher Tuttle, The Route 66 Chaplain. #FaithAndGoodCourage #faithgoodcourage #Route66Chaplain #ChristopherTuttle #RoadsideWisdom #Rule66 #HealingHighway #KindnessForTheRoad #QuietStrength #TheCompassionDeficit #WitWisdomAndDinerMoments #GraceOnTheGo #route66 #matthew25lives

    The Detour Called Self-Doubt | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep48

  6. Jul 30

    Someday Finally Showed Up | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep47

    Someday Finally Showed Up and it looked exactly like a corner booth at Mr. D's 66 Diner in Kingman, Arizona. Both had the burger and the root beer float. Both had the pie. They had been married forty-nine years and eleven months and they were somewhere in the middle of the greatest road trip of their lives. No phones on the table. No awkward silences to fill. Just two people who had long since run out of things to prove and were simply enjoying where they were. Route 66 had been on their list since before they were married. They had talked about it the way couples talk about the things they're going to do when the time is right. And then one morning the time was right and they got in the car. Route 66's centennial year as the backdrop. Hawaii at the end. Two things they had always meant to do together. Not one for him and one for her. Both for both of them. This week's Roadside Notes is for anyone who has been treating the life they want like something they'll get to eventually. Someday doesn't wait. You have to go get it. The road is a hundred years old this year and it's still out there. Still the same two lanes it always was. Go get your someday. It's closer than you think. 📖 Read the full Journal entry: https://faithandgoodcourage.com/2026/07/30/someday-finally-showed-up/ 🎙️ Roadside Notes is a reading series from the Faith and Good Courage Journal, stories of grace, grit, and second chances written and read by Christopher Tuttle, The Route 66 Chaplain. #FaithAndGoodCourage #faithgoodcourage #Route66Chaplain #ChristopherTuttle #RoadsideWisdom #Rule66 #HealingHighway #KindnessForTheRoad #QuietStrength #TheCompassionDeficit #WitWisdomAndDinerMoments #GraceOnTheGo #route66 #matthew25lives

    Someday Finally Showed Up | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep47

  7. Jul 23

    She Drove It Anyway | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep46

    She Drove It Anyway and nobody in her life tried to talk her out of it. That part surprised her. She had braced for the pushback, the raised eyebrows, the quiet chorus of are you sure about this. Instead her teenage kids helped her pack. Her sister put a tracker on her car. Her best friend called every evening at seven. And on a Tuesday morning in early fall she flew to St. Louis to drive Route 66. She wasn't running away. She had been through a divorce, lost a job she was good at, and spent the better part of two years making sure everyone around her was okay. Somewhere in the doing of all that she had misplaced herself. Not dramatically. Just quietly. The way you set something down for a minute and then can't quite remember where you left it. Her dad had driven Route 66 when he needed to think. Told her the miles had a way of sorting things out that nothing else could. She had carried that story for thirty years. This was finally the right time to find out if he was right. I met her in Needles on one of her last days on the road. She slid onto the stool next to mine with the easy comfort of a woman who had been doing this long enough to feel at home anywhere along the road. This week's Roadside Notes is her story. And it belongs to every person who has been so busy taking care of everyone else that they've lost track of where they set themselves down. 📖 Read the full Journal entry: https://faithandgoodcourage.com/2026/07/23/she-drove-it-anyway/ 🎙️ Roadside Notes is a reading series from the Faith and Good Courage Journal, stories of grace, grit, and second chances written and read by Christopher Tuttle, The Route 66 Chaplain. #FaithAndGoodCourage #faithgoodcourage #Route66Chaplain #ChristopherTuttle #RoadsideWisdom #Rule66 #HealingHighway #KindnessForTheRoad #QuietStrength #TheCompassionDeficit #WitWisdomAndDinerMoments #GraceOnTheGo #route66 #matthew25lives

    She Drove It Anyway | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep46

  8. Jul 16

    The Note You Leave Behind | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep45

    The Note You Leave Behind doesn't require a conversation. It doesn't require an introduction or an explanation or even eye contact. It just requires paying attention long enough to notice that the person next to you at the counter is carrying something heavy today. The counter stool is the best seat in the house. Always has been. You get the front row view of everything. And sometimes what you hear from the booth just behind your left shoulder is a voice that's been holding it together for too long and just ran out of road. You know that voice. Most of us do. We've used it ourselves at some point, hunched over a phone in a public place trying to keep it together while the world kept moving around us like nothing was happening. You don't go over. That's not what they need. What they need is simpler than that. A receipt. A napkin. The back of whatever's in your pocket. Seven words. Find happiness in the fact that the world needs you. You fold it once, set it where they'll find it after you're gone, and then you walk out to the parking lot and let it do whatever it's going to do. You'll never know. That's the whole deal. This week's Roadside Notes is about the kind of attention that changes how you move through every room you walk into. It doesn't cost anything. But what it produces can mean everything to somebody on a day when everything felt like nothing. 📖 Read the full Journal entry: https://faithandgoodcourage.com/2026/07/09/what-the-road-taught-me/ 🎙️ Roadside Notes is a reading series from the Faith and Good Courage Journal, stories of grace, grit, and second chances written and read by Christopher Tuttle, The Route 66 Chaplain. #FaithAndGoodCourage #faithgoodcourage #Route66Chaplain #ChristopherTuttle #RoadsideWisdom #Rule66 #HealingHighway #KindnessForTheRoad #QuietStrength #TheCompassionDeficit #WitWisdomAndDinerMoments #GraceOnTheGo #route66 #matthew25lives

    The Note You Leave Behind | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep45
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Roadside Notes is a Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading — short, soulful reflections written and read by Christopher Tuttle, The Route 66 Chaplain. Each episode is a five-minute stop along the highway: a story, a thought, a quiet moment for the soul. No sermons, no spotlight — just roadside faith, diner-table wisdom, and the sound of grace still traveling well. 🛣️ New readings every week. 🎧 Read more stories or join the Roadside Club at faithandgoodcourage.com

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    Faith And Good Courage
  • Creator
    Christopher Tuttle
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    52
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2025 Table 66 Productions / Faith and Good Courage. All rights reserved.
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