Life
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“Fear does not prevent death.”
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1 min read
“Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.” —Naguib Mahfouz For much of my life, I felt ruled by fear. Like a despot in charge of my life like a banana republic. Fear of alienating myself, of offending my classmates, or never fitting in. Fears which didn’t end when I left school. They persisted into…
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Waters Shall Break Forth
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7 min read
God’s message draws us to the margins Advent 3A | Isaiah 35:1-10 When I first visited my grandparents in Green Valley, I really didn’t know what to expect. I was in grade school, 8 or 9 I think. And what I knew of the desert is that it’s covered in sand and there is nothing.…
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When are you living for?
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6 min read
We’re all conscious of time. It’s finitude and speed. Sometimes languishing and always passing, faster and faster as we age. There’s something about having less real estate left to cover which increases our velocity. We all have thoughts about time and how we live our lives. And we’re all focused somewhere: past, present, future. When are you…
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All Life is Motion
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2 min read
ALL LIFE IS MOTION All life is motion. Movement, progress, not in the progressive sense, or the ever building, rising toward an infinite power, but as in making movement one step in front of another. All life is motion. Movement in our cells, the very building blocks of life, moving constantly and permanently vibrant buzzing,…
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Why ‘Is’ May Be Our Most Important Word
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8 min read
Bill Clinton Was Right About the Nature of Being Twenty years ago, in the midst of an impeachment, the sitting president made perhaps the most weasely defense ever. He infamously tried to parse the word ‘is’. In his questioning about an ongoing relationship with an intern, Former President Clinton said: “It depends upon what the…
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Broken
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1 min read
The mangled parts of a red stroller strewn across grass and concrete a tire in the middle of the road and I pray to God no one was in it.