1 John 4:18

What if work and family are both first? This is what women mean, I think, when they say that they “want it all.” The difficulty in combining work and family is not merely that they compete for a woman’s time, though of course they do. It is that they require completely different attitudes. To be […]

John 13:33-35

I told him I lived with five guys and that it was very difficult because I liked my space and needed my privacy. I asked him how he kept such a good attitude all of the time with so many people abusing his kindness. Bill set down his coffee and looked me in the eye. […]

John 15:5

I cannot live, I can’t breathe/ Unless you do this with me./ Hey oh, here I am./ (Do this with me.)/ Here we go – life’s waiting to begin. -Angels & Airwaves, “The Adventure” I took a walk with God today. It had been a while since I’d had the opportunity to really worship him […]

John 13:34-35

Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be. -Donald Miller, Father Fiction Relationships are tricky – all kinds. The source of nearly every emotional problem I’ve ever had as a result of a relationship has sprung from the fact that I didn’t know what those relationships were actually supposed to look like. I’ve […]

John 6:37-40

I think every conscious person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality, has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group think, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within Christian spirituality […]

1 John 4:9-12

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven in the inexcusable in you. -C.S. Lewis For one reason or another, I realized recently that I’ve gotten used to the idea that I have an extraordinary capacity to forgive. But looking back on all the times I’ve claimed to forgive someone, […]