I have this cat that annoys me to no end. My parents named him Pest in an attempt to capture the fullness of his personality and he certainly lives up to his name. If you are a living person, Pest likes to be around you all the time. Unlike many cats who can be described [...]

This post is not so cleaver or creative, but rather the lyrics to an old song that is just really resonating with my heart right now. I have come to this ocean And the waves of fear are starting to grow The doubts and questions are rising with the tide So I’m clinging to the [...]

As I was driving home from a meeting today I found myself very hungry and after scrounging through my wallet I found the grand total of $2.25. I pulled through the drive-thru at McDonalds and asked the man on the other end of the monitor how much a fish sandwich and medium fry would cost. [...]

Sometimes I find myself feeling pretty defeated as a Christian since I typically seem to forget that my life has a purpose that is beyond my circumstances. It is so easy for us as Christians to get caught up in the work that we are doing at the moment, whether or not that work serves [...]

Reflections on Getting Lost As I was reading the speech by the professor from Millsaps I couldn’t help but smile and think about the times when I was the student in the audience. When I graduated from high school the administration boasted of how great our class was: how much we had done, how smart [...]

There is an eery sense of peace in the air tonight. The temperature was mild and the wind held a hint of chill and of fall. The peace, I discovered, lies in the beauty of the ugly. The sky was a dark and dreary shade of gray and storm blue and for many there is [...]