When I started writing a blog, I tried to consistently publish a prayer every Friday. The prayer was meant to carry through the weekend, until Monday when I’d post something new. I would love to resurrect that tradition starting today. With Thanksgiving approaching in the U.S., it feels like an appropriate time for a prayer about gratitude. As we prepare for Thanksgiving week, here is a script for you to chew on with God. Blessings friends. O God, We are... Read more
This week, my full course around the sun came once again to an end. A birthday. 41 years. Last year, turning 40 was a watershed moment. The decade birthdays, as a good friend told me today, are the most interesting because we are totally different people at those junctures than at the previous 10 year milestone. Aging is one of those elements of being alive that seems defiant to any sort of spirituality. To age is an unstoppable force, raging... Read more
One of the hardest but healthiest decisions I’ve made in the last year is to visit a chiropractor. I had a variety of nicks, knocks, tendon strains, and disjointed what-not. After extensive conversation about what hurts and what doesn’t, we set to work on my ITB (iliotibial band) which is a tendon that runs from your hip down the outside of your leg and across the front of your knee. There was an elbow digging into my thigh. There was... Read more
I started my first blog in 2006. Writing as a pastor in a small farming village, I began writing as many people do. Without a clue what I was doing. With such limited wisdom but with an increase of willingness to share that limitation with the world. Much has changed in life since then. I grew up in the chemical valley of southern West Virginia, in the town of Hurricane, and felt my way to faith in a spirited conservative... Read more
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