Personal reflections on my life and experiences.
“As Eugene Peterson said, ‘We live in narrative, we live in story. Existence has a story shape to it. We have a beginning and an end, we have a plot, we have characters.’ Story is the language of the heart. …So if we’re going to find the answer to the riddle of the earth-...
Read more →I don’t know if you are like me in this, but my ability to get through books comes and goes. I don’t know if it is seasonal or what, but there are periods in my life when I am primed and pumped, and I can get through a series of books with little problem,...
Read more →Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. ~ Matthew 10:39 Whenever any talk bubbles up about losing one’s life for someone else, most everyone will agree that the person who has done this is the noblest of beings. We read stories in the...
Read more →I want to tell you why this is the song of the day. About two years ago, I started dancing to quell my long streak of staying home every weekend night. I gave a few ballroom classes a try. Uhh- no. A friend then directed me to try some classes at the Albuquerque Dance...
Read more →So it’s goodbye again…. Maybe you’ll forget you were never here.
I am currently working through my fifth turn of being involved with a Crown Money Management course. I originally took the course as a student 2 years ago or so, and I have helped co-lead 4 classes through Sagebrush Church after that. I have always struggled with managing money, and the basic concepts you...
Read more →After bleeding for 6 months over a (non-)love lost, I am at a place where I am realizing that my perspective on love needs some real work. Well, not just my perspective. My practice, as well. I detach what I should know from my faith about loving from the mechanisms that actually drive my...
Read more →Yep. These guys are still the best.
I stopped for a moment this last Sunday night between chores and thought back over the summer, and was filled with a deep sense of gratitude for how those months worked out heading into this fall. I recalled that I had set a few goals for myself at the start of summer that, at...
Read more →“Always”, by Joey Barnes.
I know you don’t feel the same. I still wish I could be with you today and see your smiling face. I have to move on soon.
I don’t know why it takes me so long to realize, and to just accept, that sometimes you love somebody, and they just don’t feel the same about you, much at all. Who can say why. Maybe your head isn’t shaped right for them. Maybe you wear the wrong deodorant. Maybe your left eye...
Read more →Heavenly Father, Maker of my smile and my tears, sit next to me and remind me that You are boundless. Remind me that You have made my heart, and that while we love and lose, this is how You made us to allow us to grow, and in the growing, to know You. I...
Read more →I have a valued friend who is in a deep struggle about the worship he experiences in most churches today. To him, most music that is played in church does not properly approach God with reverence and respect. “There should be a difference between the music we hear in church, which should prepare us...
Read more →Overheard while shopping at Lowe’s. Went home and listened to the full song, and was sold. I understand the lyrics.
“I think our lives are usually viewed in our chosen perspective. You think God has kept something good from you. I think He has protected you from a repeat of your past mistake.”
Well, it’s 7:30 in the evening on Sunday, and the first day of church life at Sagebrush Highland went very well. With over 300 in attendance (200 or so in the initial service) and some full youth classrooms, the new church venue began with a good base of attendees to welcome its arrival. The...
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