Category: Personal
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Walking In His Desert During Lent
Lent is here. It is among us. For me, I have noticed myself in such a rut. This place of confusion and being overwhelmed by the wave of tasks and duties. Responsibilities to my family, my community, and in my relationship with Christ. In the many moments of loneliness and frustration, I feel so tied […]
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Ah the Joys of Trying
Today I was talking with a friend about what a challenge this fall has been. The long stretch of 2017 was certainly long, and now it’s over… First there was hurricane Irma, which set so many people back on work and life. If you do not live in Florida and/or have no idea the whereabouts […]
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Some Media Inspiration to Actually Do Lent.
There are a decent amount of friends posting on social media about this liturgical season in the desert. Ash Wednesday memes are truly out of this world and there are selfies galore and let’s not forget the goodbyes from our faithful friends posting “see ya at Easter” which seem to parallel the full parking lots and Sunday friends […]
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When You’re Not A Summer Missionary Anymore
Dear college student (or mom, if you’re reading this), Right now over a hundred on-fire college students are en route to Tiger, Georgia to go to the sweetest mountains for John 15. John 15 is a retreat for former Life Teen Summer Missionaries. So many dear and wonderful people are about to attend perhaps the best […]
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A Heavy Heart in Half-Hearted Relationships (and Other Rants)
DISCLAIMER: This will not be the best blog post you will ever read. I had my reservations in sharing this seeing as it comes from a touchy subject that has been a heavy cross for me this past year. The first draft of this was written in January of 2016… I found it buried in my […]
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Here’s to Writing More (Life Update)
Perhaps it is a good thing that my deepest writing endeavors end at my precious little WordPress, which has a cult following of maybe one person who actually knows me in my personal life (hey, you rock… whoever you are) and the rest are yet-to-meet friends who just so happened to have pressed “follow” when […]
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Songs with Memories
Have you ever thought about the different memories we have linked to various songs? No matter how many times I listen to a song the same memories and feelings will come back to me. Songs, harmonies, words… they hold themselves like a time capsule. This became an intriguing thought to me, so I sat down […]
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The Art of Masculine Friendship
One time I was with a friend and someone joked about a “bromance”. We all hear that term often. Cute reference at first glance, common even. Quickly, another friend added, “I hate that phrase… why does masculine bond have to be sexualized?” I have never viewed that word the same way since. Masculine friendship, the […]
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Why it’s #BeAMissionaryMonday
Prologue Excuse the fact that I’m typing this within the last few hours of #BeAMissionaryMonday . I planned on having this done last night. But life and ministry got in the way. Time got ahead of me, the people I serve became priority. I made a plan and God laughed. So now I’m posting this […]
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Enough With The Pedestal!
Recently, I attended a social gathering (for use of a nice word) of drunken idleness that reminded me of a really dull night I once experienced in the middle of my senior year of high school. Garbage music and loud vulgar seemed to be making up for how boring it was. As the minutes went by I found myself […]
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