Sleep evades me tonight. I don't want to sleep. I have become restless. My mom told me tonight that I have been gone long enough, "it's time to come home," she said. I think she is right, but probably not for the reasons she believes. I...
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first,...
I feel the cool concrete hard beneath my back. Bumpy rocks press in against my feet through my flip flops, their straps straining against the tops of my toes. The wind blows and I feel it dance over the bridges of my feet and tug...
Today a woman--and by woman I mean a friend whom I was helping out, not a random stranger on the skreet--handed me her American Express card, military id, a list of errands to run and walked me out the door. She chimed as I left,...
“Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too...
On my way home tonight I decided that I was going to tell you about my strong feelings about the extreme states we live in. (You like that...
Courage begets Courage I need to let you in on a little secret. Sometimes I forget that you're here. Sometimes--as odd as it may sound--I forget that I pour my heart out onto open pages on my computer and then publish them for all of you...
Why sometimes I wish that I wasn't labelled a "Christian" ...
[I have been tempted to remove this post along with cleaning out a couple of others that have been deemed by some as "too personal." However, I have chosen to leave these more intimate posts here for two reasons: one) they matter. I don't want...
