Having contrarians in your daily life, at your dinner table and in your community can be maddening at times…but can we and should we try to live without them?
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Embrace the Contrarians in Your Midst
Tag: Light
patterns.
As someone who is trying to grow closer to others and sprinkle as much salt and light into the world as possible before I go, I am humbled. Dunbar’s number tells me a story.
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In hope and memory of Peter
When I was a young man, I used to get pretty annoyed when my mom told us we had to be dropped off at CCD (Catholic Catechism classes) at our local Catholic Church. Turns out, my mom was trying to give me a little bit of faith, but all I could think of was no […]
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Dare to Be Who You are Called to Be
I was you
You wouldn’t know it now
My brand has changed
What you see now is “The Church guy”
The “Christian guy”
It is hilarious to me, that when I meet you…
You think I am “one of them”
I used to sit in the back…
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See the light in others
See the light in others…
I’ll never get over how important asking the right question can be. When I began learning about ministering to others or “doing life” with other people (as the church sometimes calls it), I didn’t realize that you could so easily signal the wrong priorities with the wrong question. For instance, if someone you are supposed […]