Truth, Justice, and All-American Allergen-Free Apple Pie
Straight Talk in a Crooked World
What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts. –Arthur Conan Doyle Standing in the accelerating sleet last night, the pinks and blues and purples burst above us like the Space Needle was imploding in the most […]
Read More Who You AreWe often feel that we get what we deserve. The basic law, “the wages of sin is death” is operating. We think that if we are not loved, it must be because we did not earn it. The truth is, we can’t earn love. It is just something that someone decides to feel toward us. […]
Read More Deserving LoveThis week I was struck by the power of Death Cab for Cutie’s video for Black Sun. We Northwesterners have been enveloped by the sounds of Death Cab for nearly two decades now, and while I don’t agree with some of their politics or lyrics, certain songs reach down deep. They also have a way of […]
Read More Try and Try AgainWhen pondering what New Year’s related song I could post here, I considered Bing Crosby’s Let’s Start the New Year Right and the playful video I featured in last year’s post. But more than anything else that came to mind, Matisyahu’s Live Like a Warrior encapsulates what I wish for others in the New Year. Please join […]
Read More Happy New Year All!It’s the original lie: you can be your own god. This seems to be the mantra that narcissists exercise regularly through their thoughts, actions, and words. THEY are superior. THEY are special. EVERYONE should bow down to their every whim, whine, and wish. We all know these people. Somewhere in their dysfunctional upbringing or exclusive […]
Read More Ye Shall Be As GodsToday a coworker and I were discussing terms that relate to the value of something. The term that popped into my head was “ten-cow wife.” That’s a phrase I picked up from a short movie I’d watched in seventh grade. It was about a Polynesian trader who seemed to pay too many cows for his […]
Read More The Eight-Cow WifeDo you ever feel like a lost cause? When we consider the totality of our selfishness, our patterns of wrong choices, our use of our gifts and talents for the wrong reasons, it’s easy to feel like God could never use us or forgive us. Perhaps you have conflict hidden deep inside, or you find […]
Read More Are You a Lost Cause?
Truth, Justice, and All-American Allergen-Free Apple Pie 