I’m trying something new. I read and pass on so many links during the week that it’s hard for me to keep track of all of them when I want to go back and re-read something. I thought I’d try a new way of organizing and sharing links. You can scroll down and zoom out…
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Day 31 – What I’m Into Oct 2014
What I’m Into – Sept 2014
Love Sounds Like Metal
It’s a sound. A metal sound. When you’re 10, love sounds like metal. You’re lying in bed, upstairs in the old farmhouse. The room is covered in wallpaper probably from the 60s, and you are buried under layers and layers of blankets. Grandma is always worried about the cold, so she piles you high with…
The Art of Being A Passive Neighbor
I live where I do in large part because of people like downwardly mobile D.L., and Grace, Christena, and Suzannah, and because of their slow and steady dripping words about race and privilege. I live in a poorer sort of neighborhood on the blacker side of town. And before we moved, I had read books on ‘missional living’, being rooted…
Am I My Brother’s Keeper?
“Prosperity breeds amnesia.” You don’t need enough money to be ‘rich’ in order to be prosperous – just enough to pay the bills and then some. Just enough to insulate you from the reality of life for the most. ‘Having enough’ as we think of it means you can pay to cover the miles…
How and Why I Write
Blessed are the Form-Fillers?
Jonathan is a new friend; and he has quite an interesting life, and writes fantastic poetry. I’m happy to have part of his story here today. The phone rang, an unknown number. The caller did not introduce himself, yet my wife recognized the voice of someone from a Christian organization. And he got…
One Word 2014
Darkness. I’m not sure exactly why. It actually came about in a slightly prophetic way, which freaks me out, because I am just so burnt out on that kind of stuff. Someone had a word, and it resonated. And then I got an anonymous postcard in the mail that completely fits me. So…darkness it is. …
Year in Review: 2013
This year has been one of exploring, and facing down fears, and claiming my truths. As I was looking back over the year, I was going to mention the couple of months that were really hard, and then realized those months were Febuary-October. Sooo…… most of the year was really hard and stressful. These last…