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Why I Hope You Fail This Lent
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4 min read
Throughout Lent, I’ve offered inspirational quotes (like this one and this one) about success and failure, adding a hashtag: #LentFail. I’m doing this so that you understand that it’s OK to fail. More than that. It’s good to fail during Lent. I’ve often commented that Lent is treated like a second swing at a New…
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‘Growth is painful.’
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“Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” —Mandy Hale We’re almost there! The long road which always ends at Jerusalem is narrowing and we will be there soon! Keep at it! #LentFail
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On Being an Enneagram 9
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2 min read
ON BEING AN ENNEAGRAM 9 How strange it is to have one’s mind live in the bargaining middle. Making camp in the breach, the trenches full with soldiers shivering, drenched by the rain which falls on both, pools forming at their feet, layers soaked with misery. A strange place to build a cabin, in the…
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‘Faith is to believe what you do not see’
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“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” -St. Augustine Keep at it! Lent is at hand! Be courageous in belief that we might see the future. #LentFail
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Seeing Jesus
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6 min read
Why do bad things happen? That isn’t the question this passage answers. Nor does it answer why we suffer, why some are blind or disabled, or why some of us are total jerks. Instead, it tells a story. A story of people willfully blind to the beauty of God. Lent 4A | John 9:1-41 The…
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‘Logan’ and the Cult of the Eternal Present
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8 min read
I remember the first time I experienced the death of a hero in a comic book. It was Cypher. I was all of 8 years old or so. And my comic was The New Mutants. It was a few months after I picked up my first issue, just in time for “The Fall of the…
Make a New Normal
