“Well done, my good and faithful servant!” Don’t you desperately yearn to hear those words from Matthew 25 spoken over you as you enter into the Savior’s presence when your time on this earth is complete? As you walk into the Open Arms of the One who sacrificed it all, you are enveloped into a …
Category: Spiritual Life
Bean-Eatin’ Appointment
“You and me, Partner. We meet center of town, high noon.” As a fan of movies and television shows set in the wild west, I’ve heard some variation of this phrase thousands of times, but I must admit that the latest GEICO commercial caught me by surprise with its application to our modern culture that …
River We
In exploring the behaviors necessary to cultivate the Habits of a Flourishing Life, I find myself being extremely cautious about how much emphasis is placed on the self-reflective tasks necessary to engage in a Habit of Awareness. And yet, I firmly believe that for true transformation to occur, for us to become Christlike, we must …
Odometer Reading
Climbing into the Jeep on my way to West Jackson one recent Sunday morning, my eyes glanced across the dashboard as I placed the car in gear and took notice of the Odometer Reading, probably because it was a nice, even, rounded-off number: 14, 200. I like nice, even numbers; so much so, I almost …
Just Walk
“Ten thousand steps. Roughly, that’s the distance you travel sunrise to sunset, each and every day of your life. It adds up to about 115,000 miles in a lifetime—or more than four times around this big blue planet of ours. With that said, just one question: Are you using your steps wisely?” This challenge comes …
Ordinary Blog
“Routine, usual, to be expected in the normal order of events, of common quality”—all of these appear as descriptors in the dictionary for the word Ordinary. Not necessarily an appealing adjective, and certainly not the word most of us desire to hear being used in a description about us--“Oh, Julie, yeah, she’s this Ordinary professor …
Sign Here
Serving as a proctor this week for a day of assessments on our campus, one of my duties in this capacity was to request that students “Please Sign Here” on a roster sheet in order to document their attendance. Uttering this phrase often as each student entered the classroom, I found myself in a routine …
Cheers, Jumps, and Fist-Bumps
One of the endearing aspects of living a life connected to the world of sports is the reliability of Cheers, Jumps, and Fist-Bumps. It does not matter if you are standing on the sidelines of the All Star soccer field at the church, in The Fred viewing an attacker spike over the net, or watching …
Where’s the Beef?
Leave it to the imagination of advertising geniuses to taint an important spiritual message from a morning devotional by distracting me with the tagline “Where’s the Beef?” from a 1984 Wendy’s commercial. If you weren’t of age (or born) to see the original airings, welcome to the wonderful world of the internet, where everything is …
Tuesday People
At this particular milepost while navigating this path to a flourishing life, I remain unsettled on the most fitting name for the core group of people that are essential elements to our personal, professional, and spiritual journeys. In one of the first blog posts, Who’s In Your Posse?, I offer an explanation for my fondness …
