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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we...
– Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey
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As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what...
– ― Henri J.M. Nouwen
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Your Failure IS What Qualifies You
“In spirituality we learn far more from getting it wrong than we do by getting it right.” - Richard Rohr
The Story
Last week, I heard some unsettling news. News, that if I’m honest, is really none of my business. But, since I genuinely care about those involved, my first response was one of concern. Some old friends, who I haven’t talked with in a while, are on the verge...
October 2011
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reblog: I don't want to do anything big for God...
Originally posted July 1, 2009
I know my blogging is sporadic at best and I still sometime wonder if it’s worth it or why even bother. But, here I am… unfiltered, uncensored and certainly unpolished.
The statement above (the title not the one about sporadic blogging) is so in contrast from the way I lived my life for years. Most of my life, I was told to “dream a big...
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The problem is I’m older now, I’m 40 years old, and this stuff...
– Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
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We tend to think, ‘Life should be fair because God is fair.’ But God...
– - Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God
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God becomes human, a real human being. While we exert ourselves to grow beyond...
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer - from Ethics, page 84
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September 2011
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Slacklining Over Yosemite
Simply beautiful… this week’s installment of “I could do that but just don’t want to.”
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reblog: What We Have Here Is A Failure To...
Originally posted on May 1, 2010
The other night, Patrick and I stopped at a gas station just outside Nashville on our way home from the Montgomery Gentry video shoot. I went inside to grab some snacks for the late night drive home and my interaction with the attendant (we’ll call him George) went something Iike this:
George: Is that gonna do it for ya?
Me: Yep. (Pause) Oh, and this...
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There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one...
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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