Kissed by Uncle Chocolate

An enormous bald black man kissed me Thursday on the back of my neck, randomly, while walking past me into a Harding dorm. He laughed manically as he disappeared around the corner.
Tessa, Abby Howard, and Michael Wright are supposed to help the Harding University freshmen feel welcome this weekend, and the Thursday night job was [...]

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Simplicity Part One

This is an excerpt from Richard Foster’s book Celebration of Discipline. It has influenced greatly how I think about possessions and Christian attitudes towards material wealth and safety. That being said, I’m very much a connoisseur of the better things in life, and I do not share Foster’s more Puritan view that leans towards thinking [...]

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Why I Don’t Pray Easy

“God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.” – Mother Teresa
“For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer.” – The First Letter to the Christians by the Apostle Peter, 3:12
At exactly 7 a.m. a knot begins to form [...]

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On Giving Pieces of Me Away

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” – Hans Hoffman
Jesus said: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, [...]

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On Moving And Belonging Somewhere

“You pass through places and places pass through you
But you carry ‘em with you
On the soles of your travelin’ shoes…
I got the wanderin’ blues
And I’m gonna quit these ramblin’ ways
One of these days, soon.”
– The Be Good Tanyas, “The Littlest Birds”
Jesus replied, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son [...]

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