• Posts Tagged ‘change’

    Hope Beyond Grief

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    I took some time at lunch today to watch the online feed of the memorial service for Tim Keller, who passed several weeks ago from cancer. Keller, founder and lead pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, was a giant in evangelical circles, if nothing more for his constant Christocentric approach to church and...

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    The Randomizer

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    I recently watched a TedTalk video given by Max Hawkins, a guy who at one time lived a fairly rigidly structured life. Because he was a person of discipline, he meticulously scheduled his time, and by living according to this schedule, being in firm control, he came to feel he was living a bit...

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    View from the Driver’s Seat

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    Back on December 30th of last year, I wrote about perhaps the biggest frustration I face as I try to live my life- and it is my regular fight with passivity. I stated then that I knew the problem with it I was having, and that I just needed to be more assertive with...

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    SOTD: “Worship What I Hate” by Lady A

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    I’ve not posted one of these in a while, but this song leapt out of nowhere to tackle me. Lady A has provided me with some of my favorite easy listening and romantic country ballads. I have enjoyed being their fan for nearly a decade, I think. But what has pulled me even closer...

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    Of Courage

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    “We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very...

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    I Cut Down The Tree

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    I cut down the tree, on down by the river, I cut down the tree over the swimming hole. I cut down the tree after waiting for hours for a word of reprieve from deep down in my soul. Back when, the tree was the place that I’d run to, a place full of...

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    Same Ole Plot. Or is it?

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    Hearing this afternoon that Sports Illustrated had a new issue coming out soon with Cub’s phenom and NL MVP Kris Bryant on the cover, I visited the Barnes & Noble website to get the phone number to a store here in town in my sort-of neighborhood. I had to ask Jeff the Magazine Guy...

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    New Years, Uh, Recommendations

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    It’s New Year’s, which means it’s time to get up close and personal with ourselves. We get to wipe the slate clean and think about all the things we would differently if we could this year. Some things we can change, and some we can’t. It is the season of resolutions, though, and as...

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    Austerity January

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    “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” ― C.G. Jung It is already Saturday, January 4th, and I recognize it has been a chunk of time since I’ve posted anything here. Part of the reason for the gap has been an on-going lack of clarity about what to write when sitting down...

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    When You Have To Change

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    At one time a few years back, my mom liked to share the sweet little story she had of one day talking on the phone to my sister’s son when he was young. She was asking him some questions about his life, and after answering a few, I guess he lost interest in the...

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    The Importance of Resolutions

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    Every year we make ’em. Every year we break ’em. Why do we keep doing this? New Years’ resolutions. Yes, from one angle, they can be a list of goals we expect to not reach. That weight we can’t lose. That instrument we can’t seem to learn. That trip we can never seem to...

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    Chance Conflict or Stay Shallow

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    Today I did something that I rarely (if ever) do, and it was, well,  hard. I told an old friend I was disappointed in him. The moment for the acknowledgement began innocently enough.  I received an email from him which had a short blurb telling me about a friend he had known from childhood...

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    An Anniversary: Six Months of Silence

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    For many people, today has probably been a pretty normal (if not a low-key) day outside of a few major news items.  Today, disco icon Donna Summers passed away.  Tomorrow, Facebook drops its I.P.O. and reaps a whirlwind of capital.   Those are the highs and lows of the news day for today, a...

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    Checking Out: Bayámon, Puerto Rico

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    Tomorrow my brother and I get to drop everything in our lives, jump in a truck and drive to Denver, and then on early Thursday morning, we’ll hop a plane to Atlanta and then fly on to Bayámon, Puerto Rico.  This trip has been a few months in the making, but in reality, it...

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    The Big Move

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    I started trying to write a really deep and cool post earlier today which I thought would totally come together this evening- a post about how becoming a Christian is like a making a big move from one country to another, and how it is not only like making a big move like that, but...

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    The Travel Notebook

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    I was digging around in a few boxes in the garage tonight when I came across a thin hard-covered little book I hadn’t seen in a while.  The little book was a journal from the summer of 1994.  A travel notebook. Decorating the front cover of the notebook is an old map with hand-drawn...

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