Listen to what Jesus says in Matthew 23:23-24 — “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. 24 You […]
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God is here (“Where’s Waldo” Deity Edition)
This is what the sky looked like on the way to church yesterday. If this doesn’t make you think that God is alive and out there somewhere, I don’t know what will. Perhaps the fact that I took this picture will driving down the highway and didn’t crash. (Don’t tell Mom.) Then today I happened […]
Continue readingTo Be Known (Cookies don’t compare)
Tonight at work, one of my favorite baristas rushed into the kitchen holding a small plate with a cookie for each of us who were cooking in the back. No one had been having a particularly rosy day, and after one of my fellow cooks said something about how crummy her day had been, this […]
Continue readingBlackroom Singer/Songwriter Performance Spring 2013
So, once upon a time I played in a singer/songwriter competition of sorts at Greenville College. I haven’t watched these videos, and I remember doing pretty badly. But they were in public and just because some of you happened to be hundreds of miles away doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be entitled to getting to see […]
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Waiting. Waiting waiting waiting. Waiting is something almost no one would choose to do but somehow it seems that everyone experiences a lot of it one way or another. Waiting is the absence of something happening. Waiting is being acutely aware of a lack of movement, development, or change. Waiting is nothing. Waiting means you’re […]
Continue readingGrounds Crew Losers: My Impressively Large Misjudgement
I wrote the following last summer when I worked with a groundskeeping crew of guys at my college. Enjoy. People are made up of so many facets. I have this rather childish habit of judging a book by its cover — or perhaps even more hastily than seeing the cover. Sometimes I judge a book […]
Continue reading“For who they are, or who they love” — America is about to… What?
In the latest email newsletter from the White House, they included a link to this video of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney briefly explaining why a piece of legislature currently in the final stages of being passed is such an overdue addition to the American workplace. This law, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), would […]
Continue readingOh Contradiction: Maybe I have a Multiple Personality Disorder
I’ve had the opportunity to observe myself for oh, a while know. And the more I do, the more I’m perplexed by my myriad contradictory traits. I insist that I’ll be open with those who ask, and then when people ask for detail I am anything but forthcoming. I’m overwhelmed one minute by a longing […]
Continue readingJust Another Blog from Just Another Blogger
Hey everybody. So since I (1) often have questions and thoughts about life, (2) love feedback from other people more than just about anything in the world, and (3) have the misfortune of being technically proficient enough to create a blog, here I am. I’ve become… a “blogger.” I may or may not post every […]
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