Missing the Game

There was once a basketball player who loved to practice, in fact, he loved practice so much that he neglected the games, just to practice.
There was once a student who loved to study, in fact, she loved studying so much that she neglected her tests, just to study.
There was once a man who loved his [...]

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Immediate Obedience

Forcing things to make sense before walking into them is not, as I believed for so long, the only way that I am justifiably held accountable to move and act – in fact, sometimes it is precisely because we don’t understand why God would do something that it allows God to be given glory. I [...]

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The Bedlam

When the couple had set out to create the restaurant on their lot, there had been nothing but vast empty wasteland; rusted nails and rebar, deteriorated wooden boards, burned dry-wall from a gas station which had been razed by fire long before. During the day it was entirely covered by shadows of the heightened Babylonian-structured [...]

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Desire, Happiness, Pleasure

“Desire reflects the focused interest in a goal object and the drive to obtain it. Happiness is an affective state linked to the appraisal that progress is being made. Pleasure, in comparison, is a positive response to obtaining the goal.” – Leyton, Marco
Our aim then is to desire one thing: to know the Father and [...]

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Thomas Merton – The New Man (1)

Life and death are at war within us. As soon as we are born, we begin at the same time to live and die.
Even though we may not be even slightly aware of it, this battle of life and death goes on in us inexorably and without mercy. If by chance we become fully conscious [...]

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Encountering God

This is the introduction to an essay I’m working on entitled “Worshipful Ostentation as a Theological Methodology”
“The Lord is my light and my salvation;
Whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life;
Of whom shall I be afraid?”
- Psalm 27: 1
It is in the contempletive vacancy of mind, ever-reaching into the infinite, never clenching or [...]

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Empowering good judgment

Live in community? Yes.
Share resources? Yes.
How?
I don’t think this means throw out our resources to the world to be wasted. I think it means, when you have a group of people on the same page, devoted to the same goal…you share your resources, to empower each other to collectively and mutually accomplish that end. [...]

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Duty of Loyalty

Outside Benefits – An agent may not receive profits unless the principal knows and approves
Confidential Information – Agents can neither disclose nor use for their own benefit any confidential information they acquire during their agency
Competition with Principal – Agents are not allowed to compete with their principal in any matter within the scope of the [...]

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