July 2011
4 posts
In Between Days.
Maybe you’re like me. Maybe you’ve justified your existence by the words you write, the notes you record, the sounds you create and the melodies you sing to audiences of various races, creeds, colors and proportions. And maybe because of this, you’ve not felt deeply drawn to other, more mundane, less creative activities in life that in reality make up the majority of your...
Leave Me Alone.
I’m a reflective vacationer. As much as I like to “check out”, vacation is usually a time for me to “take stock” more than anything else, to have a real hard look at where I’m at and where the Lord is leading me and what He’s revealing to me about sin in my life and all sorts of other neat things. I promise it’s not as exhausting and painful as it...
Cloudbusting.
Do I even get to be cynical? I was talking to a friend the other day who said “You know, I could easily be cynical, but I choose not to”. Not a bad course of action, but the “realist alert” in me moved into the red as I immediately made some comment about how glazing over situations while trying to put a positive spin on everything is about as helpful as being pessimistic...
Running Up That Hill.
The patience required in the life of a Christian who wants to properly bear the name of Christ is something to behold. I look back, I look forward, I look to the right and to the left, always thinking I should be in a place that I’m not in….either yet or ever. I want to “press on” like the apostle Paul, while being “content in all things”, but it feels like some...
