Tag: success
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Dear Younger Me
I have not updated my blog in a while. I was trying to finish my book. Since I decided to move houses for the first time in almost 12 years, I definitely did not get the book done and am now procrastinating by writing this blog. Go figure… There was nothing wrong with living with…
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Wish That
Sometime toward the beginning of this year, my roommate was listening to a teaching (that’s the over-simplification of what it was) and the speaker was using the example of certain types of cicadas that come out every 17 years and then asked the listeners what they were doing 17 years ago since the world looks…
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A Different Answer
How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals? That question of the day seems to be convicting no matter which way I come at it, but the way it got me was probably different than the way most people would see it. For me, the problem isn’t saying no…
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The Practice of Slowing
One of the things the Lord has been teaching me this year is the importance of Sabbath in my life. My Sabbaths usually consist of turning off my phone, putting it in the downstairs bedroom Friday night after church, making banana bread every other week (when I have the ripe bananas from a client-friend), going…
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New Year, New Me?
Happy New Year!And also, Merry Christmas…And also… Happy MLK Day…And also… Yeah… sorry about that. Definitely meant to blog a whole lot more over the last month. See, what had happened was… I didn’t actually get less busy like what usually happens in the month of January. But I do have a good reason for…
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Surprise Friendships
“Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful friend who can find?” Proverbs 20:6, ESV (emphasis and word change are mine) I haven’t talked about it in a while, so I’ll reset my life story briefly: my dad was in the Army from 8 months before I was born until well after…
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Keep An Eye Out
This one’s for you, Bekki. 😉 As I was trying to go to sleep tonight, I turned on my go-to “sleeping music,” K-Love 90s. A song came on that was big around the time we lived in Washington State, and it caused me to go through the whole timeline of what happened in the world…
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Blimey Camp 2024, Pt. 2
This is part 2 of 3 about my Blimey Camp experience last weekend. This is going to be the longest blog since this was the only full day of Blimey Camp. Yesterday, we left off with a question: did the Lord wake me up in the morning? What time? The answers to those questions are:…
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Finishing Well
Today I did something I really never thought I’d do: I “retired” from running. What does that mean? Well, it really means that, for the foreseeable future, I will no longer be enrolling in races like this. The above certificate is from the Plaza 10K event in Kansas City, Missouri. This was my second time…
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