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desire

17 May

Connected?

My phone stopped working last week. Maybe this is why I’ve been noticing so many people are on their mobile devices recently. The dad scrolling through newsfeed at his daughter’s . . .

22 Mar

Passion

It’s Holy Week. This is no time to be timid. It’s time to long. To groan. To ache. To mourn. To hunger. Most of the time, I live life too . . .

28 Oct

Held

Maybe when it’s all said and done, this is why I follow Jesus—why I’m a Christian. Because Jesus came in the flesh, died and rose in the flesh, ascended in the flesh, and will return for us in the flesh. Because underneath so much of my trying, I’m a little boy whispering, “Will you hold me? I love it in your arms.

27 Oct

Identity, Image, and Instagram

We compare our monotonous, humdrum or even dark, painful moments to our friends’ highlight reels and we’re left in a hurricane of inadequacy, feeling ashamed, not enough.