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My dear friends,
Merry Christmas.
For those of you who believe in the miracle of Christmas, all I want this year is for you to know the life of baby Jesus even more and be encouraged in your worship of his humanity and divinity.
I had lunch with a couple guy friends this week. One was a thirty-something year old bass player who had his first relationship a couple years ago. He had focused on school and music for many years. As a Christian he believed the Lord would bring him the right woman when the time came. After reaching thirty and having zero dating experience with no woman on the horizon, he started to question if he had made the right choice. Where is the wife he trusted …
I now know why I fell in love with my ex-boyfriend: He was a hugger. Ok, I fell in love with him for more than that. He made me laugh, doted on me, and had really strong arms. What? That’s not shallow. What would be shallow is if I told you I fell in love with him because he had a nose that was almost as adorable as mine. But back to the hugging thing… Fun Fact of the Day: Oxytocin is a chemical that …
It’s just been one of those days. From the minute I laid my head on the pillow last night, until typing this now. It’s been heavy, hard, beautiful, exciting and encouraging…all in 24 hours. But the best part of days like this is that you know you won’t forget them. They are times of growth, reflection, humility and seeing God in people, music and the stillness of staring at a computer. I am not going to vomit it all up. Not necessary. But I hope …
A few years ago, my pastor had the idea to do Christmas differently. It was titled “Advent Conspiracy.” That word “conspiracy” immediately makes me wonder if the government is still listening to our conversations and monitoring our NetFlix selections. Yes, I said “still.” But back to the other conspiracy…Maybe just watch the video: (Update from 2009’s post to the NEW 2011 version) This year, some friends and I started an Advent Conspiracy group where we watch a DVD that our pastor and some other dudes …
It is not the arguments of theologians that solve the problems of a questioning heart, but the cry of that heart to me, and the certainty that I have heard. -God Calling In the summer of 2007 I felt a heaviness on my life. I wasn’t sure what it was but I felt it. Looking back on journals I saw that I was asking the Lord for direction. What that would look like, I didn’t know, but I asked to serve and help my generation, …
A few of my girlfriends were over last week and we were talking about Unicorns. Naturally. Let your love for these animals grow and take a moment to thank Lisa Frank Trapper Keepers for doing such glorious justice to these amazing creatures. Believe! (said in excited, but hushed whisper.) Some of my friends scoff at my love, while others send Unicorn thoughts, videos and paraphernalia my way. Take a gander: 1) My friend Amanda told me to do a search in the King James bible. …
I rarely paid attention in school. I blame part of it on self-diagnosed A.D.D. and partly on the fact that my friends write really good notes. Looking back, I wish I would have ditched the notes, and signed up for every history class offered.
Because the past is the best determinant of the future.
There is ALWAYS something new. Even if we aren’t in the market to buy, it’s in our face. Watch. Read. Buy. Repeat. I am starting to think that my adaptation to constant newness must have an impact on my expectations of church and ultimately God. On Sunday my pastor spoke about how he fears every sermon will be a new infomercial. Something people are intrigued with for thirty minutes, and then forget about when they shut it off. (unless it’s the The Perfect Brownie infomercial. …
When I come into contact with people who’s writing or speaking I admire, I try to play it cool, but it never works. Like yesterday, I was at Pepperdine University and had the privilege of spending the entire day with a relationship researcher and author who has impacted me greatly. Before noon, I had already said the following: 1) “I read your book a year and a half ago and then I Facebooked your daughter.” 2) “We are your stalkers for the day…we will be …
I have been wondering for awhile now, how I want to present my final opinions on birth control. One of which was to present facts and figures, the other, to share my heart. Since data can often be subjective to those doing the research, I have decided to go back to the beginning and simply share what questions I had that catapulted me into this. I have also realized that there shouldn’t be a concrete opinion on this, since technology will always be changing and …
I have been absent the last few weeks due to weddings, moving both my apartment and office and then driving to Montana for a week. I am currently sitting, looking out over Whitefish Lake and sad to be leaving shortly.
“Some worship music is like spiritual masturbation for women.”
“Did she just say…”
“Yeah, I think she did.”
I have five weddings in two months and I feel like my carnie size feet are disliking the stiletto-heel time they are facing. I need a foot rub…and a boyfriend to do it for free. I’m taking applications. Boyfriend or not, there is a lot going on at a wedding ceremony, which can leave little time for reflection. It can be especially hard for me when I am so busy stuffing my face with mini-crab cakes and lil’ smokies. (note: of the two weddings so …
The greatest fear I have, in relation to a man, is to be raped. In my mind, I have played out what I would do. Run. Scream. Kick. Bite.
I imagine and hope that an unnatural super-power-esque strength would be unleashed.
I want to be a heart surgeon. On the day that I pick up the scalpel, I will also crack open Heart Surgery for Dummies. “C’mon Leon, shhh…close your eyes. It says here the patient will appear to be sleeping. Yeah, do that, just start counting sheep. Oh, wait, unbutton your shirt first….Ok so, if I was lying face up on a table my heart would be on what side?…right…ok…got it. This is going to be so easy. Shhh Leon, just relax.” I flew to …
Thanks to my friend Ellen, I was pleasantly surprised to learn Stevey and I have more in common than just magical Unicorns. Thanks Ellen…and thank you Mr. Colbert America. ALSO: If you are interested in getting a good purifying water system (you will be pleasantly surprised to find out all the fun things in our water system) please check out www.multipure.com. My friend Kimberly, kbrown@ncmn.edu is a distributor and all around knowledgeable woman who can tell you about it. She is amazing and has a …
“On this trip I think we should notice it, explore it a little, to see if in that strange separation of what man is from what man does we may have some clues as to what the hell has gone wrong in this twentieth century. I don’t want to hurry it. That itself is a poisonous twentieth-century attitude. When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.” -Zen and the Art of …
I have loved this song’s lyrics for awhile now and am a sucker for anything that has strings in it. Just found this video and thought I would share… Im gonna miss you. Im gonna miss you when you’re gone. She says, “I love you, I’m gonna miss you in your songs.” And I said, “please, don’t talk about the end,don’t talk about how every living thing goes away, She said, “friend…all along I thought I was learning how to take, how to bend not …
I take classes from time to time for Coaching. (Please remove the image you have of me as a 50 year old beer bellied man whose athletic career peaked when he scored the winning touch down at his high school homecoming.) The classes are for Life Coaching, which interests me since I like telling people how I think they should live. Surprisingly, coaching is about letting the person realize that the answer is within them. This means I have to keep my mouth shut and …
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