Steven W. Spotts, Psy.D.

02/18/2025

*Note: Door of Hope has street parking only, so please take this into account for your arrival time.* We will be gathering this Saturday, February 22 to honor Steve’s life. Please join us if you’d like to. Service details in the photo.

12/07/2024

I haven’t yet been able to bring myself to post anything here about the unexpected passing of my dad. I haven’t wanted to do anything to make it feel any more real than it already is. We lost him on October 13 to a cardiac arrest and we can hardly believe he’s really gone.

My dad was, in my opinion, the best of the best. He was not only an incredible dad, but also a very dear friend. We miss our Pops more than words can say.

My dad committed his life to helping others and he was a safe landing place for countless people, not only in his work as a therapist, but for anyone and everyone who needed someone to listen. It was such a gift to have been loved by him, to have been heard by him, and I count it the greatest privilege to have been his daughter.

If you’d like to, please join us to celebrate his life on what would have been his 70th birthday. We’d love to be together with you as we remember his life and legacy.

08/26/2024

Thanks so much to Ian Rice and the whole team at Rice Financial Group for a fun evening at the ballpark watching the Hillsboro Hops crush it! It’s great to have folks you can trust with your financial future AND who know how to have a good time! :)

09/13/2023

Birthdays and other anniversaries offer opportunities to stop and consider what often gets overlooked in the day to day grind of life. Today is my dear wife’s birthday. In a couple of months we will also celebrate our 46th wedding anniversary.
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As a wife, mother, Nana, and friend she asks for so very little and offers so very much to me, our three children, their spouses, and our seven grandchildren.
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This, of course, is all part of the miracle of life that surrounds each of us in every moment but that I only occasionally acknowledge. I take so much for granted that my expressed gratitude, though real, can seem pretty lame. Even so, on this occasion of her birthday, I find myself particularly grateful for her presence, her patience, and her particular forms of love that I know so well. She is incredibly intentional in all of her relationships; always seeking to make others feel included, considering others and their needs more important than herself but, importantly, not to the exclusion of herself. Her strength of will may be easy for others to overlook or misjudge but I have relied on her courage, self determination and fortitude more times than I can count. She is strong in ways I am not. For a complicated person like me, she helps me simplify. For all my lack of focus, she is a laser. For all the important things I would otherwise drop, she carefully holds. For all the times I neglect to pray, she is already on her knees.
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It’s these subtleties of the human personality that I find so remarkable. The things we come to know and love in the people we know and love are easily as incalculable as the expanse of the universe or the mysteries of quantum physics. Yet, days can pass when I barely acknowledge these transcendencies that bring joy, awe, inspiration, and meaning to my own existence. Fortunately, her birthday is one more opportunity to reflect on these things and to express my deep gratitude for this humble, prayerful, holy wife and partner. She is my delight.

11/30/2022

45 years: Of love… praying, planning, partnering, playing, hoping, helping, trusting, trying, failing, falling, and finding our way. We’ve learned from each other while leaning in, leading out, sometimes rocky but always rock solid, built on the Rock who was/is our hope and help in times of trouble. It is He who brings peace in our conflict, reminds us to offer kindness rather than criticism, submission instead subjugation, and gives life that is full of wonder and adventure. We have not mastered marriage in 45 years, but our lives still belong to the Master and He still knows how to turn our brokenness into beauty and our faults into fruit.

11/23/2022

Dad would be 100 years old today. He put his faith in Jesus shortly after marrying mom and never looked back. 18 years ago he entered into his rest and now with mom (4 years ago) they eagerly await their resurrection, life in renewed bodies and, ultimately, an incredible and joyous reunion with all of us who follow in their footsteps. As the prophet poet Isaiah once wrote, “Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy!” (Is 26:19)

11/07/2022

09/18/2022

Grandsons are easily entertained. Fire, sticks or dirt (sand) should suffice!

05/09/2022

Our two moms shared the same birthday even though they were 10 years apart. They’re both gone now but their influence of self giving love remains. Both cared deeply for their families and we are forever grateful for their love and legacy. Happy Mother’s Day you two. We miss you greatly.