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Being Human, Doing Hard Things, and an Extravagant Call

Frodo: "I can't do this, Sam." Sam: "I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, [...]

By |2014-08-29T14:02:38+00:00June 12th, 2013|Uncategorized|

Reboot.

Time for a reboot. I've been using that term a lot lately for different things. It seems to just be synonymous with pruning and cutting things out of life. Taking things to their simplest state again. Because of that, I've sort of been pondering something that I affectionately call "Wendell Berry-ing it." Wendell Berry is someone that I'm challenged and inspired by. Berry is a prophetic-type guy: a farmer, an advocate for peace, activist with much to say about war, the environment, the economy and society in general, he's a novellist and poet, and he doesn't own a computer and lives an Agrarian lifestyle. This outspoken voice resonates in my imagination. But to be honest, I'm [...]

By |2014-08-29T14:03:19+00:00May 31st, 2013|Featured, Uncategorized|

Seek, Find, and Wonder

My daughter's birthday was last week. So was my anniversary. My two girls and me. It has made me think of life, as I always do. Not just what has happened, and not what will happen, but what is happening. Because today is connected. Yesterday is a vapor and tomorrow is a shadow that the sun (right now) casts on the sidewalk in front of us. Learning from the past, planning for the future, and living in the moment should make us hold loosely our life as it swirls like water with the oil of wonder. One day it will all be caught up together. No separation. One day. The wonder being the hope of Christ, [...]

By |2014-08-29T14:03:56+00:00April 11th, 2013|Featured, Uncategorized|

Quiet Hour, Loud Heart

Octavius Winslow wrote, "Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; -but the Father, for love!" ... On the human level, Judas gave Him up to the priests, who gave Him up to Pilate, who gave Him up to the soldiers, who crucified Him. But on the divine level, the Father gave Him up, and He gave Himself up, to die for us. As we face the cross, then, we can say to ourselves both "I did it, my sins sent Him there" and "He did it, His love took Him there." In the quiet of Good Friday, I'm just thinking about Jesus. I'm obsessed [...]

By |2014-08-29T14:24:40+00:00March 30th, 2013|Uncategorized|
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