It’s 4:40am and I write from what has become my usual Edinburgh airport terminal coffee shop table. I am bound for a Christmas-break travel stint through Eastern Europe visiting a number of friends and places I’ve been before (and a couple that I haven’t been yet). The past three months have positively flown by […]
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Whispers in the Waiting
I work in front of a music-stand-turned-standing-desk (I don’t like sitting) in my father’s sunny home office. The irony that Jason Gray has spent the past 3 minutes and 47 seconds insisting that “Nothing is wasted…” isn’t lost on me. That assertion speaks to questions painfully relevant at the moment. I’ve now completed a second […]
Continue readingThailand Chronicles: Departing Thoughts
A very good friend of mine, who came to visit me this morning and stuck with me all the way to the security gate at O’Hare as I prepared to leave for Thailand, gave me an assignment as we said goodbye to write a pre-trip blog post. So here it is. I’m headed into an […]
Continue readingThe Construct of Trust
Here’s something I had never really thought of before. God asking us to trust in Him is actually another gift in itself because even the very mindset affords peace. Whether or not an outcome appears the way we expected or wanted, it’s profoundly settling to be able to rest in the assurance that someone else […]
Continue readingSnapshot of St. Louis
I first noticed the woman in front of me at the bustling, rush-hour grocery store as a result of the way your attention is lulled back from its absence by an abnormal delay. It has been a curiously long time since I had moved and I became casually interested in the transaction taking place. The […]
Continue readingA Poem that Does NOT Reflect How I Feel Most of the Time
A poem about the anxst I occasionally feel while waiting on God for answers. Enjoy.
Continue readingThere’s More than One Way to Flush a Toilet (And Other Lessons Learned in Togo, Africa)
A recap and a few lessons learned during my stay in Togo, Africa.
Continue readingThe Drama Unfolds
Hello again. Writing on a blog is an interesting exercise — in an instant I’m both making my thoughts accessible to the entire world and also wondering whether anyone will actually ever see this. But for any and all who ever wonder, I wanted to share what has developed in my life since I posted […]
Continue readingA Snapshot: My State of the Union Address
Hello all, Whether you are one of the people I speak to every day or one of the many more that have had an impact on my life but with whom I don’t often get to catch up, I have felt for a little while that an update is in order. I want to write […]
Continue readingPierre – The Homeless Chronicles
Pierre It was almost 6pm and my jaunt carried the kind of energy that steps taking you away from a long day and week at work and towards home and the weekend can’t help but possess. The sky, though perpetually overcast, was still relatively light — probably due to the beginnings of flurry that was […]
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