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Sounds in the Silence

A few weeks ago I helped lead a weekend retreat for the high school group I am privileged to work with.  One of the activities we led our students in was some quite time by a lake.  I remember really looking forward to this part of the weekend.  I had been working nonstop at my new job.  So much, in fact, that I was beginning to think I was putting too much energy into my job at the neglect of other things (this blog for example).  Filled with anticipation, I sat down, took a few deep breaths, and began settling into the silence.

But there wasn’t silence.

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The Up Side of Growing Up – Three Signs of Maturity

I’m 26.  Sometimes that makes me feel old.  I can remember specific instances in my childhood that I would contemplate what life would be like when I was finally grown up.  Would fart jokes still be funny? Yes, they are.  Would I still play video games?  Also yes.  I knew that by this point in my life I would have everything figured out.  Sadly, younger self, this is not how it is.  Perhaps I was asking the wrong questions.  Looking over my life and seeing what has changed – the areas where I’ve labored for growth and found it along with the areas where I could not progress yet God’s grace still collided with my fallen nature – it seems that as a child I did not know what it was that made me childlike.

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