Change is Bad
It is a misnomer that people are looking for something “new”. Sure, on the exterior this may be true. We are always looking for bigger, better, and faster. However, internally every human craves the Immutable, the Unchanging. Immutable doesn’t = boring. God, for instance, is immutably fascinating. In a life where the majority of...
Profoundly Weak
It was one of the scariest moments of my life. Here she was, my first born child. Small, frail, and slippery. I wanted to hold her…I needed to hold her, but my hands have a notorious reputation of being clumsy and her little body would not handle “clumsy” very well. This baby, my baby, was shockingly fragile looking....
The Light Yoke of the Love of God
St Francis De Sales said it well, In short, devotion is simply a spiritual activity and liveliness by means of which Divine Love works in us, and causes us to work briskly and lovingly; and just as charity leads us to a general practice of all God’s Commandments, so devotion leads us to practise them readily and diligently. It makes me...
Intro
I was a mailman for years….and I hated it. Ironically when I tell people I was a mailman they frequently appear to become very interested. Why? I guess if the most people ever see of a person delivering mail is the 22 second appearance in front of their door, delivering mail might look like a sweet combination of an hourly wage and a leisurely stroll. It was pleasant at times. What killed me (besides snow, icy rain, 120 degree weather, chronic lower back and knee pain, territorial pets, transient customers, low hanging tree limbs, left out toys, and unexpected ankle twisting holes) was the redundancy of the job. Every morning I walked into a cube shaped casing desk where I shoved mail into the same slots that I filled the day before. Every day I got in the same vehicle, parked at the same starting points, walked the same routes, etc. etc. etc. I could do it blindfolded. This did not seem to fit into my paradigm of abandoning my life to follow Christ.
