My wondering for the day (or at least the past few hours) was about our perceptions of others and how those perceptions shape our attitudes, thoughts, emotions, and behavior. Question: Have you ever noticed how we base a lot of our behavior on how we expect others will act or react? Today, I realized by […]
Continue readingHow I have felt lately — lyrics
If you’d like to hear it, ask me sometime when I have a guitar handy and I’ll play this for you. But this is a bit of a summary of how I’ve felt the last few weeks. I imagine that some of you might be able to relate. Oh Father please Be near for I […]
Continue readingNeed Iron in Your Life?
I just had a conversation not too long ago about self perceptions vs. the perceptions of those around us. This topic has always been one of a lot of interest to me. I consider myself fairly perceptive, (exhibit A) but for the life of me, I can never put much of a finger on how […]
Continue readingMercy vs. “The Law” — Incompatible? Maybe not
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 […]
Continue readingGod 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 […]
Continue readingWaiting
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 […]
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