Category Archives: The Life I Live
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Did you attend Catalyst last month? And come home feeling all warm, fuzzy and inspired? But quickly stash away your swag bag and your notes? Only to get immersed back into life as usual? Or did something (finances, obligations, lack of vacation time) keep you at home? So you watched the seeminglingly-never-ending twitter feed and […]
On Fall
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Growing up fall was always my favorite season. Back to school, high school football games, homecoming dances, hot chocolate, apple cider, warm chocolate chip cookies, pumpkin patches, Halloween, Thanksgiving, corduroy pants, blue jeans, bulky sweaters, pea coats, burnt orange foliage, the Texas Longhorns…what was there not to like? But these days fall is more of […]
Living Biblically
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I’ll admit it. This is sort of a cop-out on a blog post. After all I have already tweeted this Catalyst video from Catalyst TWICE. But I can not stop thinking about this message from Francis Chan. Catalyst East 2010: Francis Chan from Catalyst on Vimeo. And I am processing Francis’ questions. What is “weird”? […]
The Best Thing I’ve Read This Week
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By far this is the best, the most-thought provoking thing that I’ve read all week. Since I first read Blue Like Jazz, I have appreciated Donald Miller’s voice, his humor, and his insight. I’ve credited his most recent book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years with changing the way I think. A few years ago, […]
One Thing
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If you were truly FEARLESS, what is ONE THING you would commit to DOING right now? Skydive? Break a habit? Tell someone how you really feel? Step into the spotlight? Run a marathon? Change careers? Give a long overdue apology? Say goodbye to a friend that is stunting your growth? Adopt a child? Looking at […]
The List
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A couple of friends and I have this shared mental list (yeah, I’m not sure how we do it either) of WORDS WE HATE. Words that makes us cringe. Words that should be avoided if at all possible. I thought it was time to commit this list to paper so I will start us out […]
The Turtle in Me
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Recently a friend (that I think the world of) pointed out that there are times when I suddenly, inexplicably, vanish. And only a shell remains. She cited a specific incident that morning and challenged me, What happened? You were so alive, so vibrant, so engaged, and all of sudden, you disappeared? Where is your fight??? […]
Too Picky?
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At the Movies: Secretariat
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A couple of months ago, I had the opportunity to join a handful of bloggers on an absolutely-amazing-once-in-a-lifetime-kind-of trip. We flew out to sunny Los Angeles, stayed in some super swanky digs (oh how I love W Hotels), and rolled around Hollywood in a white Hummer that stretched as long as a football field. We […]