The last sentence of a book is not where I would ordinarily begin a conversation, however, it’s the choice for today. In the last lines of his book, Robert Marks shares, “Non-computable you are Fearfully and Wonderfully Made.” These words arise from one of my favorite passages in Scripture, Psalm 139, and capture, at least …
Category: Spiritual Life
Bathrobes and Towels
Honestly, it’s not a frequent occurrence for thoughts of Bathrobes and Towels to arise while contemplating Scripture, unless, of course, you visualize the numerous childhood nativity scenes where these two garments are essential props for depicting the fashion of the first century. Clad in a parent’s bathrobe and a towel on the head, children do …
Amazing Ambiguity
Awesome, fascinating, wonderful, marvelous…any of these choices make excellent synonyms for the adjective Amazing, would you not agree? If I were back in elementary school diagramming sentences, Amazing would appear on a slanted line underneath the noun it is describing. For example, appropriate nouns might include grace, race, or Spider-Man. Combine the two words and …
Here Comes Trouble
Whether the words are quietly muttered under your breath with genuine concern over what is about to happen, or they are expressed loudly with adoration as you greet a friend, voicing the phrase Here Comes Trouble can carry multiple meanings. I admit to offering a grin every time I see a child wearing this phrase …
Tabula Rasa
Stroll down the hallways of any educational institution today with the purpose of locating a blackboard, chalk, and erasers and you are likely to come away empty handed. Although not as commonplace as they once were due to the invention of the dry-erase and smart boards, chalkboards (once made of slate) have likely been a …
Spiritual Arteriogram
How’s your heart? Not a question you typically hear someone ask a healthy person. It’s an inquiry reserved for a patient on the mend, someone recovering from by-pass surgery, or perhaps an angioplasty. However, while reading Gods at War this week, Kyle Idleman was suggesting that perhaps I needed to consider the health of my …
Stick-to-itiveness
Post-it Notes…this is the answer I provide to students when a discussion arises over the question, “What do you wish you had invented?” Not only would I be financially secure, I would have been responsible for creating an item with perfect balance—enough stickiness to adhere where it’s needed, but not too much that it destroys …
18 Inches
Many days I have to willingly embrace my weirdness; it is a reality I cannot deny! Who else, after reading that the heart and head are 18 Inches apart, actually measures a few things with a tape measure to gain perspective on that actual distance: the kitchen tile (20 inches), my foot (9.5 inches), and …
Functioning Not Flourishing
My sincerest apologies to anyone within the sound of my voice who is becoming so exhausted by my use of the word flourishing that you are ready to strangle me. Enamored by the word several years ago, it encapsulates the idea in my mind of what optimal health and human performance looks like, and the …
Belly Button
I know something about you that you usually keep hidden from the majority of the world. It’s not a secret, but you tend to keep it private…Guess what? You, my friend, have a Belly Button! Not a topic that regularly arises in conversation, does it? However, it is indeed a fact of human existence—you have …
Flourishing @ Life 