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The Joy of Not Being Seen

The real beauty of life isn’t always in the big gestures. It’s often hidden in the unnoticed moments that pass by when no one is watching.


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I am Half Over

Don’t cue the mid-life crisis just yet. Why I’m writing again

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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