1-I'm made in God's image which means God likes nachos.
2-The line between laughing and crying is really, really thin.
3-Writing about grief is difficult … not writing about grief is even more difficult.
4-I've noticed the best way to get my chores done is to set aside time to write.
5-I put "play dumb" on my to-do list. That way if I don't say anything intelligent, I can at least check something off at the end of the day.
6-It’d make sense for you to be hesitant with only one arrow left in the quiver. But you got more. There's a bunch of shots left to take. Look, there was always more than one way this could go (and by "this," I mean your dating life, your theology, your savings account, the apocalypse, and what you'll have for dinner).
7-Love is amplifying someone else's music.
8-Love is talked about too much and not enough.
9-Internal-unpeace-people will do their best to stir up external unpeace. Sometimes, it's intentional; sometimes, it's unintentional. Either way, the fire is real. If you're an internal-peace-person you really only have two options:
Bring them into the entirety of who you are, take the pain, and be a fire blanket to their flames.
Douse them into oblivion with a fire hose of boundaries and prohibitions.
You'll have to do the best you can, but don’t wait around for morality because she’s probably not gonna weigh in. I don't have much else to say other than if you go fire-blanket, be strong, and if you go fire-hose, be gentle. Either way, internal-unpeace-people will give you a hell of a time.
10-Being a good friend is less about saying the right thing and more about the recognition that nothing said can make things right.
11-Most of my parenting approach was to annoy the kids until they started wrestling with me. Years later I heard a neurologist talk about how neurochemicals are released when we physically interact with loved ones. And I was like, “Oh.”
12-How right was Friedrich Nietzche? 150 years ago, he predicted that the period of history we are currently living through would be accompanied by a "revaluation," in which people would try to find new values to replace the old.
13-How wrong was Friedrich Nietzche? He predicted that the “revaluation" would fail “because you cannot believe in moral codes without simultaneously believing in a god who points at you with his fearsome forefinger and says ‘Thou shalt’ or ‘Thou shalt not.’” C’mon Fred. Everyone knows that beauty is deeper than morality, so the point isn’t whether or not we can conceive of something healthier than fearsome and coercive gods; the point is, will we?
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I’m doing the Grand Canyon this week and then some Colorado mtns so you might not hear from me next week. Unless … you’re in Denver on Thursday night, May 9 cuz I’ll be hanging out with my friend, Janel at BrewTheology/Denver and talking mimetic theory.
Latest podcast episode is out. Yep, more open and relational theology, and this time with my friends, Jay McDaniel and Tori Owens.
Oh, Sunday, May 19 … I’ll be at St Andrew in Highlands Ranch (Denver) with my pal, Mark Feldmeir, speaking, signing some books, and hopefully meeting you. :)
Good stuff here!
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I think these are pretty true.
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Some good stuff here!