Cobh, Ireland
September 18, 2009:
I slip back into these places like one does with a cozy sweater or favorite book. I find myself here, lost in the colloquialisms and traditions, in tea and toasties, yet I am separate, gazing upon myself as if a voyeur. I miss it here, I will always miss it here, but [...]
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Snapshots of Green, Part II
Posted in Leaving and Coming Home, Traveling and Winding Roads, tagged being content, Europe, home, traveling on September 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Choosing Between Lives
Posted in Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, Leaving and Coming Home, Life, tagged Life on June 16, 2009 | 14 Comments »
I wish I had time to do everything. Depending on the stimuli around me and the ideas and memories in front of me, what I want to do and where I want to be changes every moment. It’s not a discontentment with where I am…only a frustration that I physically cannot be everywhere at once, [...]
Change is Loss, Loss is Change
Posted in Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, God, Justice for the Oppressed, Leaving and Coming Home, Life, tagged Africa, change, Christianity, genocide, God, Grand Rapids, Hotel Rwanda, Jesus, Life, questions, Rob Bell, Rwanda, the Bible on April 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“Change is loss and loss is change.”
Rob taught on this a few weeks ago, and as I was looking through my journal, I came across it again.
I have wrestled a lot with change lately, as anyone who reads this blog can see. I have tortured myself with finding God’s will, all the while not even [...]
Answer Trumps Question
Posted in Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, Christianity, God, Leaving and Coming Home, tagged answers, God, questions, the big picture on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I spend so much time demanding so much of God. In ways, it feels like I give up on living sometimes, and just ask Him to do it all. I use my cluelessness on the matters of life as an excuse, but really, it’s not.
I’d just rather not make mistakes, or screw up, or be [...]
Notes on Leaving
Posted in Bibliophilia aka the Love of Reading, Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, Leaving and Coming Home, tagged Life, Donald Miller, leaving home, Through Painted Deserts on March 19, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Remember those giant flat wheelie-things on the playground that had a bunch of railings on them; one person would start pushing it in circles, then jump on and it would whirl around so fast that by the end of the ride, you felt like your eyeballs were in your toes, and you stumbled dizzily around, [...]
A Healing Balm and Arms Stretched Out Towards Azure Skies
Posted in Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, Leaving and Coming Home, Life, Random Thoughts, tagged Frances Mayes, healing, Italy, Lake Michigan, Michigan, spring, summer, the beach, Tuscany, weekend away, West Michigan, wine, winter, yoga on March 15, 2009 | 11 Comments »
My weekend away was better than I could have imagined; a concentrated healing balm that soothed and stretched and opened me up in many directions all at once. I wrote a lot while I was there, and here’s what came out:
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It feels so strange to be this alone. Turning off my phone, turning off the [...]
Understanding Abram
Posted in Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, Christianity, God, Leaving and Coming Home, tagged Abram, Christianity, faith, God, Jesus, Life, plans, religion, seeking, solitude, the beach, the Old Testament, trust on March 9, 2009 | 8 Comments »
In reading through the Bible, the willingness to follow is astonishing. Whether it’s an Old Testament prophet following God into the wilderness, or a disciple taking up the yoke of their rabbi, Christianity has always been a faith of, well, faith. It has always been a way of life that reminds us that we are [...]
A True Florentine Smell and the Duck Pond
Posted in Leaving and Coming Home, Traveling and Winding Roads, tagged Edge Hill College, England, Europe, February, Florence, Italy, longing, Ormskirk, spring, travel, warm air on February 11, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I walked out onto my front porch this morning and inhaled deeply. The unexpected warmth of the day before was lingering in the air and perfumed it with this smell that I cannot describe. In one split second, without even having to close my eyes, I wasn’t there anymore. My fickle mind had laughed and [...]
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"...we'll lie down on the mat and stare up at the vast blue sky above us and watch the clouds go by and listen to the breeze as it moves the leaves overhead. I'll be there, on my back, and say a short prayer: 'God, I can't believe I get to live this life.'"-"Velvet Elvis," Rob Bell
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