Did you happen to read the title of this post and start humming a song from the 1960s? Coming across the phrase Tell Him while reading Francis Chan’s Crazy Love, I began to vocalize the lyrics to The Exciters’ song I wasn’t even consciously aware that I knew: I know something about love/You’ve gotta want …
Stick With It
Understanding that self-reflection, for some, is not considered an enjoyable or worthwhile activity, I hope you will indulge me today. Perhaps this question will not be too challenging as you consider your life up to this point: Is there an activity you’ve faithfully engaged in, something that now you are grateful you were able to …
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Control-Alt-Delete might be a meaningless and random piecing together of computer keys for the younger generations accustomed to typing on a screen rather than a keyboard, but for those of us Gen Xers, CTRL+ALT+DEL was a desperate measure to reboot our computers. This “soft reboot” was designed by an IBM engineer as an internal way …
Baptized Ambition
Have you ever contemplated if what you are pursuing in life is truly part of God’s plan or just Baptized Ambition? As I mentioned in How to Die, I’m grappling with some Big Questions in this Season of Life where I find myself in a state of transition. One moment what I examine communicates the …
Here Again
How in the world do I find myself Here Again? Again in this place of uncertainty, of feeling Stuck In-Between two options, of desiring answers to Big Questions that may never come, struggling to keep my eyes on Him and my nose in His Word, yet needing to make tangible decisions that have long-lasting implications. …
TL;DR
What does that mean?!? I seem to be asking this question more and more often these days. Perhaps this is connected to the fact that I seem to keep adding years to my chronological age, which means I’m becoming disconnected from the jargon and lingo younger generations are using. Regardless of the why I must …
Intrusive Thoughts
You’re not even worth a slice of pizza, Julie! Believe it or not, that thought played through my mind recently and I’m not joking. Although I am laughing it off today because I recognize that it was an exaggerated and Intrusive Thought, it was a very real one that played over and over in my …
Taste and See
Originally, I was going to title this post Be a Pink Spoon to connect to a previous writing, but the more I read about the word foretaste in Amy Sherman’s book, Kingdom Calling, the more I considered the verse from Psalm 34:8 written on the spoon rest sitting atop my stove: “Taste and See that …
More Your Size
Max Lucado shares a story that George Washington Carver asked God, “Why did you make the universe?” But God answered, “You want to know too much for that little mind of yours. Ask me something More Your Size.” So, Carver rephrased, “What was man made for?” Again He said, “Little man, you are still asking …
Unrealistic Expectations
Imagine scanning social media one morning and coming across the headline Jones Steps Down as Sports Information Director. Not necessarily an attention-grabber for most readers, but this press release was being shared by respected colleagues in the field of what is currently known as athletic communications, mostly in efforts to draw attention to the Unrealistic …
Flourishing @ Life 