Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

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  • 5 Rules for Vacation

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    6 min read

    Episode 32 of the Make Saints podcast

  • Works — it’s what we do

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    1 min read

    Scripture talks about our being judged by our works. But we seem to think we should spend our time judging others’ works.

  • The Week

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    5 min read

    Why does the week start so well and end with such a sense of failure and missed opportunity? And why does this happen every time?

  • It shouldn’t be so hard to buy a pen

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    4 min read

    The perils of buying pens when you want to care way more than you actually do.

  • Why it is hard to start a new Bullet Journal

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    8 min read

    It’s hard to start a new bullet journal. You don’t want to mess up! Which is why you need to start anyway. You’re going to mess up. Opening the pristine pages of a new journal is like unwrapping a new present: you’re excited to open it and feel what’s inside. And scared of ruining it…

  • OK, now the new year can start

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    5 min read

    The real challenge of New Year’s is not just that we write the wrong year on documents. It’s our living the wrong life again. I finally started my Bullet Journal for 2019. It isn’t pretty and I’m not showing off all my beautiful pages. But the fact that we are nearly a week into 2019…