Month: November 2009
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Overcoming Gravity
Every morning that I don’t have to go to work I go through a battle with gravity. With no alarm and no justification for getting out of the bed, I find myself struggling to get up. It’s always the same thing. First I wake up and notice that it’s somewhere between 5:30 and 6:30 AM.…
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What Would Pedro Do?
On the steering wheel of my truck there is a cover with the letters WWJD on it. As most of you know, that stands for “What Would Jesus Do?”. For a long time you could find all sorts of new WWJD merchandise everywhere. Maybe it was because some people thought the world was about to end and…
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Being Who You Are
I remember the first time I heard cuss words. I was seven years old and had just recently moved to a neighborhood called Chesterfield Heights in Norfolk, VA. Until moving there I had been pretty sheltered from children outside of my family and none of us cussed. To this day, unless we are really trying…
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The Life You Were Born To Live
“Nice parking job,” are the first words I say to my friend Russ after not seeing him for almost thirteen years to the day. Several months ago we found each other again thanks to a Facebook Linkedin connection combo and now here we are at the Salt Lake International Airport. Has it really been 13 years? Why does it feel…
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There Are Two Ways To Burn Your Candle
There are two ways to burn a candle. Americans are strange. Despite our relative prosperity, we are one of the most emotionally depressed cultures on the planet. It’s been said that one of the main causes for our mental state is that we try to cram more activities into a 24 hour day than what…
The Roofless Church 