once, when he was critically young, he saw something so stunningly sordid that it burned its way into his heart and killed a part of it, and of the rest of it that fought to beat and to bleed, within that it laid its eggs so that they would hatch and it could burrow...
Read more →At one time a few years back, my mom liked to share the sweet little story she had of one day talking on the phone to my sister’s son when he was young. She was asking him some questions about his life, and after answering a few, I guess he lost interest in the...
Read more →“I suspect I will feel like this for a while”, he thought.
Read more →Ever since I heard Kip Moore accept a request by a caller to the Bobby Bones show to come into the studio and play his song “Hey Pretty Girl” before the guy proposed on-air to his girlfriend, I’ve thought “That guy is cool”. And then I learned this is also one of his songs,...
Read more →The hardest part at the moment was the fact that everywhere he went in his home, she was there. Whatever loveliness that had taken place, the sweetest moments of joy and pleasure, the first moments of discovery and connection, the last moments of passion and pleasure before the axe fell and she catapulted him...
Read more →As I have been digging through literature on male development and masculinity, I find I return to think about the concept forwarded by Eldredge and touched on by other authors: that those men who grow up with a stunted or damaged masculinity somewhere along the way were either abused or neglected in that area...
Read more →In my efforts to try and understand the meaning of being a man, I ask questions as a Christian. Because I am a Christian, I look for answers that fit within a particular cosmology that describes the purpose and meaning of life. A cosmology is a world-view or perspective that provides suggestions as to...
Read more →Recently, I’ve returned to the question of what it means to be a man (and equally, what it means for a woman to be a woman), and so I decided I needed to skim the books in my library on the topic and in each, pull the salient points they offer about Biblical manhood...
Read more →There are so many good country songs coming out right now. I love Keith’s blown-out guitar work and the striding rhythm behind the lyrics here. Catchy and cool song.
Read more →Well, it’s been three days now since I have seen the turtledove parents, and talking to Tim this morning, he suspects something spooked the adults and they have abandoned the nest- and the two eggs. It got down to 45 degrees last night, and without cover, I wonder about the viability of the eggs....
Read more →I’m not really sure how to fit this into the 12 Days of Christmas tune, but it appears God has given me some guests to watch. Over the last month or so, two turtledoves decided to take over the abandoned veggie tray that sits on the table on the grill in my backyard. I...
Read more →Sad to say it, but this excellent 80’s song comes to mind when I hear all of Pyongyang’s sabre-rattling from North Korea. Provoke a cobra long enough, and odds are you will probably get bit. May things not come to that. The song...
Read more →I knew today was coming, but I tried to keep the mental images of what I thought would happen at bay for a while. Well, today I found out how it would go. For several weeks now, I and two friends from my church small group have talked about getting together to play basketball...
Read more →The hard part for me about having this blog and writing things to it is that I am honest. I want to be an honest person. And I want to write honest things. But, unfortunately, I am also a pretty subjective person. I want to write a bit about my own life- my own...
Read more →Today is Easter Sunday, which as a Christian I celebrate for the resurrection of Jesus, the foundational assertion and centerpiece of my faith- that God sent His Son into the world to die as a sacrifice for human sin, so that in His resurrection from the dead, Death would be dealt a mortal blow...
Read more →I think I’ve started six blog posts in the last month, and all of them with great seed ideas, but as I’ve tried to work through them, tapping ideas out onto the screen, the ideas have just wilted and died. I don’t know if this is writer’s block, or more broadly, just an alive-r’s...
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