Yesterday I took a “selfie.” It wasn’t flattering. In fact, it was downright ugly, and I wish I could have deleted it. I’m not talking about a picture taken with my phone. The “selfie” I’m talking about was self pity. I’m usually an optimistic person, but something happened yesterday that completely threw me off. Before [...]
People often talk about purpose in terms of what they do. A career. A role. A skill they’ve built over time. Those things matter, but they are not the deepest reason you are here. There is a greater purpose. A first calling that comes before all the others. The apostle Paul made it clear. Above [...]
Today we celebrate the birth of Christ. If you ask a number of people why Jesus came, you’ll receive a number of answers such as: “He came to bring world peace.” “He came to teach us the way.” “He came to set up a kingdom.” “He came to bring economic justice.” The list could go [...]
In The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis imagines a bus ride from hell to heaven. Lewis uses this trip to explore how our understanding of the connection between the eternal and the temporal is often incomplete. “Son,” he said, “ye cannot in your present state understand eternity. . . That is what mortals misunderstand. They say [...]
Discomfort and reward are not always exclusive. Discomfort sometimes accompanies me when I write. The blank page that must be filled and a prayer that I’ll somehow, some way have something worthy to say is behind every sentence, every semicolon, every period. But great reward always replaces discomfort once the puzzle pieces of thoughts and [...]
As a college student, I had driven the two-hour, straight stretch between Boise, Idaho and my hometown of Twin Falls a million times. This time I was alone except for the companionship of the radio, which played loudly so I could sing along. As I crossed over a bridge spanning the Snake River Canyon, something special was [...]
