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Roadside Notes
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
Episodes
Roadside NotesThe Long Way Home | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep60
Some roads take you straight there. Others take you somewhere better. I met a man on Route 66 who knew exactly where he was going and decided the direct route…
Roadside NotesThe Tip Nobody Left | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep59
The Tip Nobody Left wasn’t money. The table was cleared. The check was paid. The dollar bills were there under the edge of the coffee mug right where they were…
Roadside NotesMore Than A Thursday | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep58
More Than a Thursday is something I’ve been wanting to say for a while now. A year in, fifty two episodes behind us, and somewhere along the way this counter…
Roadside NotesThe Loop Ends | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep57
The Loop Ends When You Do. I didn't come up with that. I heard it years ago from someone who said it the way people say things when they've lived it rather…
Roadside NotesThe Man Who Collected Happy | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep56
The Man Who Collected Happy didn't call it that. That's just what it was. He traveled for work but somewhere along the way he had made a decision that a few…
Roadside NotesThe Empty Stool | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep55
The Empty Stool was the last seat in the house. Every other spot at the counter was taken and the booths were full and the lunch crowd was moving fast and not…
Roadside NotesMile Zero | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep54
Mile Zero doesn't look like much. It's just a driveway. A cup of coffee going cold in the cupholder. A map you've already looked at three times even though you…
Roadside NotesThe Regular | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep53
The Regular doesn't always have a name on the sign out front. But everybody inside knows who he is. He's the one who comes in at the same time, sits in the…
Roadside NotesThe 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…
Roadside NotesThe 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…
Roadside NotesThe 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…
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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…
Roadside NotesThe 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…
Roadside NotesSomeday 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…
Roadside NotesShe 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…
Roadside NotesThe 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…
Roadside NotesWhat The Road Taught Me | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep44
What the Road Taught Me didn't come from a book or a classroom or a motivational weekend. It came from a diner stool, a long stretch of highway, and enough…
Roadside NotesThe Man Who Drove Every Road | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep43
He sat down next to me at the counter like he'd done it a thousand times, because he had. Different counter, different state, same stool. He drove cars for…
Roadside NotesKindness Costs Nothing | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep42
It wasn't a remarkable morning. Coffee. A window seat. The kind of quiet that settles in before the day gets loud. I wasn't looking for anything. I was just…
Roadside NotesGrace Takes the Detour | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep41
I wanted the straight shot. Efficient. The kind of drive that gets you somewhere without asking much of you along the way. But I missed the ramp on I-40 just…
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Kindness Is Not Always Reactive | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep40
It wasn't a remarkable day. Just the road and a reason to stop. A handwritten sign in a diner pie case. Buy one, get one. Nothing spiritual about it. Just a…
Roadside NotesCoffee Came Back | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep39
I was sitting at a Route 66 diner not long ago, hands wrapped around a cup of coffee, watching the quiet rhythm of the morning unfold. The kind of place where…
Roadside NotesOne More Day | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep38
There's a quiet truth that lives on both sides of the same coin. Every morning is one more day. And every morning is one less day. Most of us live on one side…
Roadside NotesGrief Is the Echo of Love | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep37
Most of us have sat across from someone who was carrying grief and didn't know what to say. This episode begins at a diner counter with a man who'd lost his…
Roadside NotesDon't Be The First To Let Go | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep36
There is a quiet idea behind the way some character performers at Disney parks approach a child's hug. They don't end it. The child decides when it's over…
Roadside NotesDo Not Grow Weary | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep35
There's a kind of tiredness that doesn't come from lack of sleep. It comes from planting without seeing anything come up. From doing good work quietly and…
Roadside NotesCenter of Attention Without Being Seen | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep34
There is a line Christopher uses with couples when he is deciding whether he is the right officiant for their wedding. He tells them he has the toughest job of…
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Gratitude Reciprocates | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep33
Most of the time you leave something kind and you never hear what happened next. A note tucked under a sugar dispenser. A tip that was a little more than…
Roadside NotesSpring Is Coming I Can Feel It | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep32
It started at a cold cement table outside a Dunkin' with a cup of familiar coffee and a head full of heavy things. Bills. Health. The state of the world. The…
Roadside NotesBecause He Knew I Didn't | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep31
There is a kind of loud that is not confidence. It is defense. Most of us have heard it. Some of us have been it. A man at a diner counter talking about bad…
Roadside NotesYour Own Devotional | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep30
It wasn't a strategy or a brand plan. It was a sentence spoken in the front seat of a car on a desert freeway, creosote bloom drifting through a cracked…
Roadside NotesThe Power Of Listening | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep29
Maybe someone near you is carrying a story they don’t plan to share. Maybe they’re waiting for a reason to speak, or a signal that it’s safe to be heard. In a…
Roadside NotesWhat God Hands You | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep28
The road has a way of handing us things we didn’t plan for. Some arrive wrapped in joy. Others come disguised as inconvenience, uncertainty, or responsibility…
Roadside NotesSeeing Past The Look | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep27
First impressions come quickly. A glance across a room, a look exchanged in passing, a quiet assumption forming before a single word is spoken. But every once…
Roadside NotesDropping The Stone | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep26
Judgment can feel easy in a noisy world. It slips into conversations, rides along with assumptions, and gathers weight before we even realize we’re carrying…
Roadside NotesRule 66 Kindness | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep25
What would it look like if kindness stopped riding in the passenger seat and started taking the wheel? This reflection imagines a year shaped not by louder…
Roadside NotesThe Coffee That Changed Nothing and Everything | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep24
A simple breakfast. Pancakes ordered with quiet relief. An older man sipping tea, content in a way money can’t explain. No speeches. No spotlight. Just a small…
Roadside NotesToday Is Your Chance To Do Better | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep23
Sometimes the road asks us to be brave. Other times it asks us to be honest. And every now and then, it asks us to begin again. This reflection sits in that…
Roadside NotesWhen Kindness Takes The Wheel | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep22
Kindness takes the wheel in ways most people never notice. What looks simple on the surface can unsettle those who have forgotten how heavy life can feel for…
Roadside NotesI See You and Thank You | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep21
We don’t always get to stand on mountaintops and shout about heroes. The world rarely pauses to notice the small acts that quietly hold it together. But this…
Roadside NotesFeed Somebody | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep20
Feed Somebody is not charity from on high. It’s recognition. A brother. A sister. A mirror. Every sandwich, every grocery drop-off, every spare-dollar coffee…
Roadside NotesFinding Common Ground | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep19
Finding common ground used to feel simple. A handshake. A neighborly wave. A shared laugh over burnt toast in a diner booth. Lately, it feels harder…
Roadside NotesStrength To Endure | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep18
The strength to endure a difficult life is not usually what we ask for at the beginning. Most of us pray for relief, for answers, for the hard parts to be…
Roadside NotesRule 66 | Kindness Born of a Mother’s Love | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep17
Rule 66 never began as a campaign or a slogan. It began at a kitchen table that smelled like percolated coffee, ground by hand in a bright red grinder, where…
Roadside NotesLove Came Quietly | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep16
Love came quietly that night, without fanfare or bright lights. Not through a throne or a trumpet, but through a manger that smelled of hay and hope. This…
Roadside NotesSharing Your Story of Faith | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep15
Sharing your story of faith changes you too. When you speak what God has done, you hear it again with your own ears. Memory turns into gratitude, gratitude…
Roadside NotesHeal | Grace on the Move | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep14
Healing rarely arrives all at once. Most days it moves slow, mile by mile, while you live your ordinary life. This week’s reflection is Part Two of the three…
Roadside NotesDrive - Faith In Motion | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep13
Faith in motion begins in the quiet before dawn when the world feels half asleep and the road waits without answers. This reflection is part one of a…
Roadside NotesThanksgiving Dinner On The Road, Pie For Strangers | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep12
This Roadside Notes episode tells the story of a Thanksgiving spent on Route 66, in a small Flagstaff café running on the last scoops of stuffing and the final…
Roadside NotesFaith and Good Courage Mission Statement | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep11
This week’s Roadside Notes steps back from the noise, slows the pace, and puts both hands on the heart of the Faith and Good Courage project. In this Journal…
Roadside NotesHealing Old Wounds in a Chaotic Present | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep10
📖 Read the full Journal entry: https://faithandgoodcourage.com/2025/09/24/healing-old-wounds/ 🎙️ Roadside Notes is a reading series from the Faith and Good…
Roadside NotesStaying True At The Bottom – Quiet Strength | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep09
Faith and Good Courage – Roadside Notes Journal Reading Episode Title: Staying True At The Bottom – Quiet Strength Author/Narrator: Christopher Tuttle…
Roadside NotesI Don’t Care (And That’s the Point) | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading | Ep08
Faith and Good Courage – Roadside Notes Journal Reading Episode Title: I Don’t Care (And That’s the Point) Date: September 18, 2025 Author/Narrator…
Roadside NotesFacing the Storm - The Buffalo Lesson | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading
Facing the Storm | The Buffalo Lesson — a Roadside Notes reading from the Faith and Good Courage Journal. The sky darkened. The road narrowed. Somewhere in the…
Roadside NotesStaying Neutral in Politics | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading
Staying Neutral in Politics — a Roadside Notes story from the Faith and Good Courage Journal. Somewhere between headlines and highways, there’s a middle lane…
Roadside NotesUpright Mobile and Blessed | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading
“Upright Mobile and Blessed” — a new Roadside Notes story from the Faith and Good Courage Journal. This one’s about what happens when your plans stall out and…
Roadside NotesChange The Tire | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading
Somewhere on Route 66, the horizon kept running away from me — until I found a young family stranded with a flat. What started as a quick roadside fix turned…
Roadside NotesBeing Seen and Heard | Roadside Notes — A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading
In “Being Seen and Heard,” Christopher shares a quiet moment in a lab chair that turns into a lesson about calling, humility, and the sacred work of listening…
Roadside NotesFaith and Money | Roadside Notes – A Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading
Welcome to the premiere episode of Roadside Notes, a Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading by Christopher Tuttle, The Route 66 Chaplain. In this first…
Roadside NotesWhat Is Roadside Notes
Welcome to Roadside Notes, a Faith and Good Courage Journal Reading. You’ve read the Journal — now you can listen on the road. Each episode of Roadside Notes…