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September 19, 2020
When’s It Going to Be Enough? When HE Is.
I hate plumbing (my apologies to plumbers everywhere). I’ve got nothing against the craft in general. I’ve got everything against my inability to practice the craft. And so, last weekend I lost patience. But I found Jesus. Let me tell you how. Too Much and Too Little Let me start with this truth: We often […]
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September 3, 2020
Don’t Waste Your Suffering: How to Study the Work of God through Hard Things
Suffering shows our soul its softness. It sends away our dreams of being secure as stone. It reminds us that the movement we feel in life isn’t our bounding forward into some greater version of freedom; it’s our spinning on a potter’s wheel kicked into motion by a God with great feet. Our longing is […]
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August 7, 2020
Blink: A Poem in Decades
2020 You thought you knew how time flew (or flies) “Something is born. Then it dies.” But 7, 5, and 2 they are, Burning wildly as the stars. Where do these moments go that we find? Into the currents of a holy Mind.
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May 21, 2020
Remember Death by Matthew McCullough
Sometimes you read a book that touches on thoughts and themes that have been growing in your own life since childhood. It’s as if the author had access to your experiences and then wrote a book that was almost custom-designed to address your concerns and caveats. But there’s even more: explanations and insights that make […]
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April 29, 2020
3 Christian Meditations for Coronavirus Anxiety
There are a thousand things coronavirus chaos has pushed up to the surface of humanity, like old sticks caught under rocks at the bottom of a riverbed. Perhaps some of the most precious are our need for communion with each other and our longing for peace. I’ve been working on my first book of devotionals […]
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April 28, 2020
Introduction to Still, Silent, and Strong
Anxiety. It breaks over us, like rapids shouldering into sediment on a river bed. The constant pressure weathers, grinds, and rubs at the soul. We feel ourselves dissolve into the swirling chaos—that throat-tightening fear that we’ve lost all control, that the white water will win the day. Some of us remember being thick and strong […]
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