It’s a weird thing. In a week I turn 49, and via social media, I find I am still looking for approval from people in my past. From old high school classmates who don’t really know me, to a grand extent. From old church acquaintances that I was around, but never very close to,...
Read more →Every so often I find myself thinking about Claude Wheeler in Willa Cather’s novel, “One of Ours”. It happens mostly when my life seems to hit another prolonged lull, or plows full on into a series of roadblocks and whatever momentum I thought I had going is stamped out cold. I go back to...
Read more →“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” ― Theodore Roosevelt Thinking as I do about meaning and purpose and Biblical answers, I’ve wondered a lot about...
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It has nagged me all of my life, this question, and for whatever reasons, the answer has continued to evade me. Yes, perhaps because of my fears, or because of my simple thinking, or because of my predilection to pursue pleasure. But as one ages, the question does not trail off and simply disappear. ...
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