It’s okay to not be okay. There’s more to us being here than just existing. Look what Oregon did: The state of Oregon will now allow students to take an excused day off of school for mental health reasons. The new law, signed last month by Gov. Kate Brown and expected to go into effect this fall, […]
Do you enjoy conspiracy theories?
So, conspiracy theories. Do you enjoy them? If you do, you’re probably the happiest you’ve ever been.
5 ways to fix your attitude.
You ever have one of those weeks when it seems like the cosmos is conspiring against you? That hammers your attitude. It gives you an excuse to have a bad one.
When you just don’t care anymore.
“I don’t care” is an alien phrase for me. Lord knows that I tend to care too much, if that’s possible. Or, maybe, I don’t care in the way I should.
Cruising through chaos, revisited.
Some time back I developed a workshop/course called Cruising Through Chaos. My intent was to equip folks with the proper emotional, mental, and spiritual tools to not only survive the chaos we find ourselves in, but to even thrive in the midst of it.
No condemnation, now or ever.
No condemnation. That’s sounds pretty wonderful, right? It’s the birthright of the Christian, and sometimes that’s easily forgotten. It’s human to try to better ourselves or want to clean ourselves up or to “do more.” We want to hit a “reset” button every day. It doesn’t work that way.
It’s mandatory.
I thought with the advent of COVID-19, we could unite against a common foe. No one has been untouched by this blight. My bad. “United” is not a term I’d come close to using. What a shame. It didn’t have to be this way.
Nameless grave.
“The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson The entire universe revolves around me. You need to know that. I am the most important being to ever draw a breath of life. You, yes YOU, only exist as […]
It’s not all about you.
It’s not all about you. It never has been. Check this out: “I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s, the writer’s, […]
When God doesn’t fix things.
Does it seem that God doesn’t fix things the way you want Him to? He has His reasons.
Getting even.
It may be that “getting even” with someone is something you’re plotting right now. “I’ll show them,” you say. “I’m gonna get them back. They will pay for what they’ve done.”
And so forth. We’re talking revenge here.
Problem is, getting even doesn’t serve any real purpose.
Our hard hearts.
The connection between God’s sovereignty and human freedom is a big, big mystery from where I sit. People a lot smarter than me (and probably you) have grappled with this for literally thousands of years. It’s still a mystery, and I’m not gonna solve this here at my Macbook on a Tuesday morning.
What I am certain of, though, is that God, by definition, is completely good in His actions. If we think about our hard hearts, and how they came about, we have to acknowledge that we have a big responsibility.