“I don’t know.” That’s one of the most powerfully freeing phrases we can say. It frees us to be honest. To admit mistakes. To be real. We can hoard and retain all day in fear, or we can relax, release, and reconnect truthfully with others. We live in community. No one seriously expects us toContinueContinue reading “Liberation”
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Lots of Time Spent Pruning
I feel like this winter there’s been a lot of pruning that’s been happening. I hope that means this summer much fruit will come. It would feel like a waste if I didn’t see much fruit from all the piercing and slicing pruning. Yet I’ve wrestled with this question for the past four weeks: isContinueContinue reading “Lots of Time Spent Pruning”
Don’t Let Your Mind Go…Or It Will
You can see those people that want to keep their mind sharp, and others that just slowly fade away…On the flip side, sometimes people try to keep their mind sharp and it just doesn’t, and sometimes people don’t care but it stays sharp. But rolling the dice of chance throwing intentionality to the wind. ButContinueContinue reading “Don’t Let Your Mind Go…Or It Will”
Disappointments Lead Us Into Deeper Depths
When disappointments strike, it’s often true what doesn’t kill you will make you stronger. However, it’s also true that apathy and depression are terribly frequent results. We also grow a lot — and tend to diversify our dreams — because we realized what we initially wanted is either not achievable, not achievable that way, or that we probably didn’tContinueContinue reading “Disappointments Lead Us Into Deeper Depths”
Slow Growth and Grape Vines
I don’t like talking about myself like this (read: I did something well), and wasn’t going to publish it until I realized the value that this metaphor presents to us all. My brother outlined a perspective of me the other day. It caught me off guard: something along the lines of, “I was really gladContinueContinue reading “Slow Growth and Grape Vines”
Jeff Beaumont 