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
Civil Wars The Sound of Silence to a Racing Heart I will fully admit that I love the Civil Wars. The band, that is, not any armed conflict that may have come to mind. Anyway, I was listening to their new album and the song “Same Old Same Old” played on the way to
Circle Maker We’re Either Living or Dying “At some point most of us stop LIVING OUT OF IMAGINATION and start LIVING OUT OF MEMORY. that’s the day we STOP LIVING and START DYING.” — Mark Batterson I stumbled upon the tweet above yesterday. It was by no accident. Why? Because I
Europe We Missed the Train We missed the train. How could we have missed it? We were sitting on the platform watching the number of minutes late our train was inch higher like a bad silent auction. But, when the train disappeared from the board (and presumably the station)
dealing with pain Dealing With Our Pain Dealing with our pain. Imagine you’re reaching up onto your cabinets (because you can reach the top of them on your tiptoes) and you suddenly feel a pain shooting through your middle. You shrug it off as a pulled muscle or a tweak
alive Growth Begins With Darkness Growth begins with darkness. Perhaps the scariest journey we can take is the one that leads inward. It’s dark and for many of us it’s foreign. There is little to comfort us as we’ve left the inner, deepest parts of us
embrace ignorance Knowledge Is Power Knowledge is power. We’re taught these words at a very young age. If we’re not taught it explicitly, then it’s more that implied. We have become so ingrained with this idea that we devote our lives to always learning more. Honestly,
active Disbelieve Well Have you ever thought that maybe we don’t disbelieve well? I think the better question is have we ever thought that the way we disbelieve is important? I know that before this past weekend, the thought had never crossed my mind. However, in