Inigo Montoya said it best. I hate waiting. Which is odd, really, because our whole modern life is built around providing us with “down time.” We have developed so much technology meant to stream line our life and give us more free time. Yet when faced with this mythical free time, most of us, myself…
Category: Faith
Anger as a Starting Point
I concluded my last post, a book review of Undaunted, the story of a Karen family escaping the violence of the Burmese army, with a quote that included the sentence, “I don’t want you to feel sorry for me, I want you to feel angry, and I want you to do something about it….
Finding Meaning in the Work
It’s amazing how simple stories can bear the strongest meaning. Jesus is known for the parables he shared. To 21st century westerners, they appear quaint, but full of wisdom. However, for 1st century agrarians, these stories connected them to the deep truths that they, in part, already knew. The one that I most connected with while…
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