I've wanted to do an Advent Calendar with my kids for minute now and have never gotten around to it. This year, I'm a couple days late but I figured out how to keep it low cost and fun--use items I already own (paper, ribbon, clips, tape, computer, printer, the wall) and only buy a …
Smart
One of my cousins is a neurosurgeon. Yes, that's right. He's a NEUROSURGEON. Now you think I'm even more amazing than before, right? By proxy, while I'm not a neurosurgeon, I must have some good genes unless all his smarts came from his mother. But after knowing his dad, my uncle, and the other siblings, …
A song
Confusion carved suspicion straight across my chest I heard you call my name Perfection choked the life out of my every breath I heard you call my name
destructive nostalgia
There’s a massive tree that hangs over a road I travel every day. And I haven’t really recognized it’s presence until today as I drove by and saw several men cutting it down. Some things we just don’t pay attention to until the process begins whereby they are taken away. Now we start to cry …
Decisions
After a couple rounds of reviewing and tweaking, I finally admitted that I didn't have the power to control the outcome.
The magic
I kept looking at the list of 2020 sermon topics, chosen because of what I've come to know. Conversations, the ability to listen to what's said and not said, showing up--you learn a lot. The longer I looked at the list, the less confident I felt. Surely, if this is a legitimate list, I'd be …
But I Don’t Want to Witness!
Hi Christians. Tired of being told you need to witness? Yeah, me too. You know why? Because we often automatically jump to DOING...as in... "Here's a list of 30 things you can do to show that you love Jesus. Pick 1...pick more if you're a REAL Christian!"* At least that's how it feels. And your …
