Join me in this… let’s ask ourselves the question: “Have I mistaken being useful for being loved?” Before you continue reading, please pause and contemplate that question again. Take a minute or two to think about it. —– There is…
Being at something long enough changes the questions we ask. Isn’t it? Hello everyone. After experiencing a feeling for the first time in my adult life, I began thinking about so many things all at once that I didn’t think…
Somewhere tonight, a door will close. Behind one door, two people will speak honestly about a marriage that has been quietly losing its warmth. Behind another, someone will delete messages before walking into the house. A child will close a…
There is something almost unserious about the phrase “drawing a line in the sand.” You can make a line with the heel of your shoe, the end of a stick, or even your finger if the soil is soft enough.…
Some words are serious because they help people name serious things. But people, let us be careful not to become fluent in labels while lacking in discernment. Because not every disagreement is gaslighting.Not every calm person is nonchalant.Not every private…
There is a moment in life that feels like injury time. The clock is almost gone. The plan did not land the way you pictured it. The goals you wrote down in January are staring back at you like witnesses.…
Do we not often make conclusions from labels before we have met the substance? We hear a word, a name, a church, a political party, an accent, a surname, a qualification, a neighbourhood, a movement, or a style of speaking,…
This is the final reflection in the Before God, Without the Story series. In the first reflection, God Was Not at the Centre, I sat with the danger of using spiritual language too quickly – how a sentence can sound…
Can I talk to men for a minute? Gentlemen, what we carry before God is heavier than what we explain to people, or even convince ourselves of. In this 3-part series, covenant is the heaviest topic for me because I…
I have been thinking about a phrase/statement/sentence we use a lot. It is a sentence I have heard. It is a sentence I have understood. It is a sentence I have probably used, or nearly used, or imagined using when…
