The day after the Cubs won the World Series I caught wind of the news down in Haiti. I’m not a huge cubs fan, but it would be un-American to be apathetic about baseball. John is from Chicago so I ran and told him the news, then we spent the next hour calling some friends … Continue reading Living Outside Eden
Bible Talk
How We Love
I’ve often told people that writing helps me to understand things. If it’s fiction, I usually invent characters that have my problems and somehow the character solves the problem and then I have a revelation about my life. I know it’s strange, but ask any writer and they will tell you that a character writes … Continue reading How We Love
Heal the Crowd
With the wake of the Saturday sun comes the wildest cultural experience I think one can absorb in the Central Plateau. Each day, hundreds of people flock from town to town in pursuit of the daily market. It’s on a rotation, each town having its market on a different day of the week, and Saturday … Continue reading Heal the Crowd
The Weight of Sin
Yesterday John and I said the last of our goodbyes and hit the air for Pignon, Haiti. Apart from the difficulties of saying goodbye, the most challenging part of those conversations was trying to explain the fragile conditions in Haiti, and the situations we would be in. The politics, poverty, and corruption all act against … Continue reading The Weight of Sin
Sporadic Love
It’s raining here, now just a sprinkle. Every now and then I feel a drop land softly on the tip of my nose, but earlier the rain seemed to be coming from the side, flooding everything in it’s path. Later the clouds will disappear and the rain will vanish, that is an undeniable fact, but … Continue reading Sporadic Love
Nothing Important
I am in a season of transition and it bears a weight. Leaving a school where I had been building up a reputation for my entire life, I am now thrown headlong into raging waters. Call it confidence, call it ignorance, but I was eager for this season. I thought I had it all mapped … Continue reading Nothing Important
The Real Thing
I clean my room maybe three times per year. Yeah, it’s about a tri-annual thing. At this point you are either appalled at me or you think my cleanliness is reasonable, everyone is a little different. Regardless of the frequency of your room cleaning sessions, the cycle is the same for everyone. It goes like … Continue reading The Real Thing
Shock Collar
I grew up with three dogs in the house. Not those little dogs that could just as easily be mistaken for cats, I’m talking about real, small-horse sized dogs. Our dogs loved people. More specifically, they loved jumping up and licking people in the face. However, we lived in a suburban neighborhood, and in a place … Continue reading Shock Collar
Mephibosheth
There’s this story I was reading the other day in 2 Samuel. I really didn’t follow any of it because the whole time I was distracted, trying to figure out how to pronounce the name of the main Character. The story is about a man named Mephibosheth, which literal translation means son of shame. But … Continue reading Mephibosheth
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