Personal reflections on my life and experiences.
Tonight, I finished the evening watching two more episodes of the best sports drama series I have never seen, “Friday Night Lights.” Wrapping up season three via Netflix rentals, the Dillon Panthers make it to the State Finals game, and after a lethargic first-half of play, the Panthers make a courageous run to erase...
Read more →It’s all fresh again today. Thinking back on things, this chorus pretty much says it all.
It was a good weekend this weekend. On Saturday morning, our church campus was able to greet a throng of guests from the neighborhood, and we offered a Christmas Store, in which parents of financially-strapped families could pick out some gifts for their kids while their kids made some crafts. A Frito Pie lunch...
Read more →A pet peeve: the cup of java you buy is not full. I think I paid for a full cup. If you don’t want me to have as much coffee as is supposed to be in the cup, then make the cup smaller. I should be able to know how much coffee I will...
Read more →Part of the process.
Tonight I was thinking about love, and how if you want to be a good lover at all, you have to have courage. You have to have courage, because inevitably, in any relationship you have where you care about someone, something is going to happen where either you or the other falls and fails,...
Read more →My good friend Wendy told me two month ago about a book I needed to read. It was Don Miller’s “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years.” She thought I could use it. And she also told me when she read it, it made her think about me. “It’s you”, she said. I thought,...
Read more →When I was in elementary school, I was pretty anonymous, and quiet. For at least the first year of it, I was considered developmentally challenged- well, at least by my parents, until they realized I wasn’t simply stupid, but just blind. I don’t remember a whole lot from elementary school specifically. I showed up....
Read more →“The” West Coast Swing song of the moment. It’s been a week and I can’t get it out of my head. Fun song.
In honor of my niece. I am now at the point with this song that I can recognize it when I hear it, and it makes me think of her. Both it and she are beautiful.
“Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.” Hebrews 2:11 Last week I wrote about a foray I took into the literature on my bookshelves related to shame. The topic remains at the...
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My boss’s cat Guildenstern knows how to enjoy Sunday football.
Enjoy more of Tim’s photos at http://photoofthedayetc.wordpress.com/.
As Seen On ESPN.com: Comment threads are awesome.
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The fruit of mining theological library book sales and used book stores in San Fran when I was in seminary, I have a few books on my shelves that are extra special to me. There is something about these compact, hardbound volumes from the 50’s and 60’s that I love. To me, they are...
Read more →For much of my adult life, I have wrestled with the power of shame, and its significance in the making and breaking of the self, and of relationships. I have struggled with its subversive destructiveness all of my life, and as a result thought as a younger man I would take some time one...
Read more →Or, why I may be banned from public running events. Thanks to my dad and my brother for wanting to get this official photo for me to commemorate the Chicago run.
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