Advent is a wake up call. To the outsiders, the broken, the weak, the hurting, the abused and neglected, God hasn’t left you. The divine is with you and wants to reveal himself to you. To the religious folks, me and you, we must realize that need salvation as well
Darkness and brokenness are the incubators of life. This is a great paradox, which is the first word from the manger. Advent asks us to embrace paradox.
Suffering is life’s greatest teacher. I don’t know why this is true. But it is. For the last five-plus years, I have been suffering’s reluctant student. I am still inching…
Life is weird. I could use a different word there, a more truthful one. Maybe I should. In my mind, I already have. But I’ve been out for a while,…
I wish I were an extrovert. My wife, Tiffani, is an extrovert. She has so much energy, enough for two normal humans and probably enough for three or four low-functioning…
Please don’t say these things to someone with a chronic illness.