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Why You Should Consider Abandoning AI
You have options. One isn’t feasible as I write this. Not use it at all. I wish I could not use it at all. I wish I wouldn’t see it, but it is a prayer unanswered. If you use the internet, it’s unavoidable, inevitable, and in many circles completely embraced for its efficiency. I probably…
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Father
The second word of the Lord’s prayer is Father. Oh what a word! It is wrought with human potential for beauty and love and tenderness and for some it is wrought with fear, neglect, absence. But ultimately the noun is most prone to our projection. I will dive in further in a moment, but I…
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Ours
“When you pray,” He said. “Pray like this,” He said. Our… Two things, He did not put a timetable on how often, how many times a day or an exact moment of when. It’s just when. Yes, Paul writes, pray without ceasing, encouraging the conversation to keep going without end. The other thing is the…
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Lose Your Father Lose Your Son Lose Yourself
Maundy Thursday, washing feet and sharing a meal. This is what Jesus does the day before he goes to die. Before he goes to a garden to pray to ask His Father if there is another way. Good Friday, the crucifixion. He goes to the cross and cries out “My God, My God Why have…
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Wholly Weak: There’s Room for Suffering and Celebration
This year Easter feels weird to me. I don’t know if it’s because last year Easter was 3 weeks earlier or what, but it just feels like it literally came a little late. Like I’m catching up to it. It’s also odd that there is a fair and rodeo this weekend near Charleston and Wrestlemania…
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I Have Not Forgotten
In some ways, it was fitting that I began this journey to Israel on Father’s Day. Today is 2 years to the day that my dad died. There are so many things I would have loved to show him. But what’s more, there are so many people I wish could have met him. I wish…
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Your Word Matters
Shalom from Jerusalem. I have not written in quite a bit and quite frankly it’s probably for the best. I actually have a lot of good news to share, and I’m actually surprised. I have begun to experience waves of goodness of God opening doors and healing my heart. I say this with fragility. Because…
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Why Sunflowers Don’t Face Each Other
I have at previous times been noted in my competitive spirit to vocalize my frustration when playing games or sports of any kind. I have been noted to do this in life in general. If you know me well, you probably have a memory that comes immediately to mind. Hopefully, a memory would come immediately…
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His Last Trip Home: A Life Update
It has rained seemingly non-stop the last 3 days. In one sense, there couldn’t be better weather to start on the final leg of emptying out the home that I spent the most years of my life, a place where I lived with just me and my dad for 5 years. There was so much…
The Long Rebuild
The Reconstructed 