Month: February 2021

little big things

.Reading time 15 minutes.

“Therefore let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good”     1st Peter 4:19 ESV I knew someone who once said to me that he would wonder why God had broken his brain, why he went from being fine one day and adrift the next. Yet he […]

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Three types of ordinary

.Reading time 13 minutes.

The ordinary. Nothing that anyone would ever conceive of as treacherous. That’s why it’s a humbling and diminishing ordeal to be undone by the ordinary. And for me it’s almost tangible, visceral in ways that I can’t help but be reminded that my ordinary can be a tempest. As I was dramatically and bluntly reminded […]

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Me and My Crazy Self

.Reading time 18 minutes.

I hate the designation of mental illness. Loathe might be a better choice, yet I’m forced, for lack of a better term, to use it. Those two words, “mental illness,” hang around my neck like a millstone. The cynic in me even prefers “crazy,” but I’ve never truly settled, truly felt peace with a way […]

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