I just can’t understand how someone can be so concerned with pleasing God and still fail so miserably. It seems like whatever I do is wrong. It doesn’t seem like I’m getting any closer to holiness. I’m still fighting the same old demons: the O.C.D., the anger, the selfishness, the pride, the seemingly everything. I [...]
My grandma, Ethel Mae Simpson, was quite an extraordinary woman. Born in 1923 and raised in a rather poor environment, she always lived a rather simple life. But her life was extraordinary in that she lived a life of faith and prayer. She was a lifelong member of Mount Olivet United Methodist Church. She married [...]
There’s something about all that gorgeous red in the midst of dreary ol’ winter.
When the mountain laughs, maybe it’s time to trek down a bit, blisters and aches. It’s easier going where you’ve already been. The snow’s no more shallow, no less in your face; the sun’s glare, no less blinding. But the holes you trampled on your first go up remain to guide you. So get yourself [...]
I posted on Twitter last week that I could probably work 24 hours a day and still not feel caught up. It’s not that I don’t love my job. I do. I’m where I need to be, right where God wants me. But it’s way too easy to sink back under all that paperwork, that [...]
I found this concept plan for a book contribution in an old sketchbook yesterday. The idea was that everyone wears a “hero” mask sometimes, that it doesn’t take a certain person to be a hero, but that anyone can live a heroic life. It never got finished or submitted..
I know the sky is beyond the branches, even though I can only see it in splotches, in tiny pieces of the enormous whole. My limited perception doesn’t change the reality, the truth. It simply is, whether I see it in its full glory or not. The rest is where faith comes in.
Aren’t they cuuuuttteee!!!! Yeah, I know they’re not really monkeys. No tails. But it seems wrong to call them anything else. Why? I have no idea. Why is it that terms we sort of grew up with just sound more right than others? Even if they’re just totally wrong, it’s like they just fit because [...]
Kevin says these are his only two original sayings, but I’m thinking he must be wrong…if only because he hates to be wrong so bad. ;P He says all of this is “very true.” “As a spiritual Benedictine Oblate, the world is my monastery.” “Like you need air, I need prayer.”
