Tales from one quarter-lifer's attempts to choose life
Community is sometimes hard to describe, and it can mean different things. When I think of community, one word comes to mind: roots. To be in community means not only having friendships, but a home. Things that make you deeply connected to a place you live and work. When I think about being intentionally bold [...]
The second area that I feel want to be bold in this year is the arena of relationships. While I’m an introvert, relationships are what my job is all about. I’m pretty good at my job and I absolutely love it, but the focus full-time on relationships means that sometimes I retreat from relationships outside [...]
The pressure to embrace being bold first arose within the context of my faith. It as though God continues to bring this to mind through conversations with friends, church services, small groups, and my personal Bible Study. It is the context in which “bold” first came to mind. All the verses I shared in the [...]
Every year some people choose one word as they start their new year to set a personal vision for what the next 12 months will hold. I’ve never done that, usually nothing spectacular comes to mind. I also am not a resolutions person. I prefer to make changes as I see the need for it [...]
Chapter 2011 that is. Tonight I rang in 2012 at the wedding of a student here in Anderson, South Carolina. Last year, I rang it in as the on-call residence hall director in Waco, Texas, meaning I was at home in my pjs. I don’t remember last new year, which probably means I was asleep [...]
There are some jobs that I come in contact with that almost always involve negative experiences. The DMV, Airport Screeners etc. It seems like the people who work there never have a smile on their faces or a pleasant word to say. When I first moved to Anderson I traveled to our local DMV office [...]
Tonight there was a “get to know your neighbor” event in my apartment complex. I’m an introvert, so I am really uncomfortable in these sorts of settings. Meeting lots of new people is not really my thing, contrary to my line of work. However, I don’t like that I know none of my neighbors. Reminding [...]
It’s been quite a while since I posted here, five months to be exact. A lot has happened in five months. You might remember that my last blog post was about the bittersweetness of leaving Baylor and moving to a new job in Anderson, SC. Last week I took a couple of days off to [...]
