community More on Purpose: Cleaning My Glasses and Faith I’ve had my glasses less than a year, so I still occasionally get compliments about them and I don’t mind them much yet. But for someone who can be OCD, glasses are a terrible thing; how does anyone keep the lenses clean
consumerism Consumerism Fever Is What I Got It’s once again been a few days since I’ve posted, but to be honest I’m torn as to what I want to share with you today. It’s been an interesting week, honestly. The high note has certainly been the restoration
alone People Along the Way People along the way. It’s a fact of life that we’ll meet various individuals throughout our lives. Those people come in great variety, but the kind I’m most interested in are the ones who stick around, the ones who ask questions,
born again One Of Billions One of billions. That’s all I am. That’s all I’ll ever be. It’s a dismally small number as a fraction, decimal and one in seven billion or so is just of the people alive right now. The gravity of this
friends Love Hopes All Things Love hopes all things. Now, you may be asking what’s the difference between last week’s post Love Believes All Things and this topic as I’ve been asking the past three days. I think this important delineation can be found in a
change Friends Will Change You Friends will change you. I spent this past weekend up in New York celebrating a good friend’s birthday. It’s hard not to walk away from a weekend spent almost entirely with two other people feeling a little closer. Inevitably, this weekend like
already What If You Don’t Find It? “What if you don’t find it?” It’s true that we’re a consumerist nation. Therefore, we’re always looking for the next big thing that will complete us. It was through a conversation with a dear friend Erik who was visiting this
believe Love to Love As last week promised, I’m continuing with my series on words (or phrases, I suppose) that have lost their meaning. Like last week, I point to a word whose overuse has been the cause of its lost meaning. The word we love to
body Mere Men I can’t tell you how many movies I’ve seen where the protagonist at the last possible moment is saved from certain doom by that friend. It seems to be a very common theme in movies, but why is that? This fact used
blog About the Journey Never, ever forget these words: “Enjoy the journey and those traveling with you, not just the destination.” — Phil Carnuccio This is a lesson I’ve been learning in earnest for the past few months since reading A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by
broken Naked, Broken and Beautiful A few weeks ago, I was at a friend’s cabin out in the wilderness of north-central PA. There were four of us in a near pristine setting and it was hard not to see and talk about God in such conditions. Being four
chivalry Half Kidding? I’m not going to taint this post with beginning by any statement of personal holiness or righteousness. I’ve not been the person I’d like to be all the time, but this is not to say I’m trying to claim Satan’
apathy Metaphors Hopes are interesting things in my mind. Many people in our lives have different hopes for us. Also, many people have similar hopes for us. What I find most interesting, however is not their actual hopes, but how they convey them to us. This
betray Falling Where to begin? It’s been a long time, an eternity it seems, since my last post and I feel there are nearly a million ways this post could go, but I guess once again we shall just have to find where the keys
blogging I’m Such a Poser I’m writing now because I have some spare time in between a meeting and discussion and I honestly don’t know how much energy I’ll have when I return from the evening’s activities. That being said, one more disclaimer. I’m
blessed Gifts and Curses, Sans the Curses So, I completely slept through yesterday. I got back from the scavenger hunt at noon and passed out from 1 to 8:45 last night. That felt phenomenal. I then woke up, ate dinner, and went with my movie buddy, Brandon, and attempted to
coffee Friends Are Like Sunshine to the Heart I really should be doing some of the reading I’ve been backlogging all week, but I’m finding it nearly impossible. As usual I’m sitting in Para despite the fact that I opened this morning and I’m just sitting here kind