What Getting “Doored” on a Bike Taught me about Life
Total safety is an illusion. Surprises will come. What you can trust most isn’t necessarily what you think it is. And, knowing what will hold you when you fall changes everything.
Your Shadow Virtues Could Be Killing You
This isn’t to say that forgiveness, generosity, presence, and grace aren’t wonderful. They are. You cannot give them to everyone all the time or else you end up a stump and someone else is sitting on you.
Feeling like an impostor can be good for you
That index card in my pocket is flimsy, blurry, and frayed. It’s fallen apart a few times, and I’ve taped it back together. But I know it’s there. Every single day it reminds me of a person who was afraid to admit what he didn’t know.
Coronavirus Made the World Quieter - Now Listen to the Noise Inside your Head
When the world got quiet, our global alarm system got better. It works the same way with you.
I’m falling in love with the hidden parts of us. Here’s why
Our secrets are wise. They point to we fear and what we love.
Can My Life Really Change, or Why the Caterpillar Has to Die
We need cells of integrity in us that know who we are supposed to become and a willingness to let everything else die.
What Can Your Fear Teach You?
Fear doesn’t have to disappear, but rather it can serve as one of many guides in our lives. If we ask it the rights questions, it keeps us safe and points us toward what we believe will make our lives whole.
Easter, if Explained by my Garden
The dark soil beneath us was never dead - it’s the most alive thing in here. Death doesn’t make sense in this economy. It’s all self-giving creation, over and over again. How lucky I am to bear witness.
Why Palm Sunday is like a Pride Parade
In that economy, in which dust in turned into people and people turned into dust, every fiber of the universe is used to create something else. There is no throwaway moment, no throwaway person, no part of our lives that cannot be used to bring healing and wholeness into our lives and the world.
Lent for Beginners
I’m honoring Lent again this year. This counter-cultural, odd celebration of the finite. I’m taking stock, giving up, looking within, and hoping for a deeper life until I become the ash and dust.
You Become What You Worship: How Habitual Pathways in the Brain Shape Your Reality
That’s what worship is. Practiced attention. Practiced worth. Connecting your life with things that matter, so that when you open your eyes in the morning, there is a shorter distance between you and possibility, wonder, and love.
Wow! We're all going to die. Isn't that Funny? Life in three lines.
If you had to describe the meaning of life in three sentences, what would they be?
My 2018 Reading List - Books about being human
Do you have a resolution to read more this year? I did in 2018 and here's my list of 24 books that entertained me, inspired me, and changed my understanding of what it means to be human.
Jesus and Christmas Explained (In One Paragraph)
When people talk about "keeping Christ in Christmas," which Christ are they talking about exactly?