Scarcity & abundance
wrecked.org I'll be moving soon and thanks to friends and a VERY PATIENT brother-in-law (a prince among men), I am going to pack my belongings, load them, and meet up with them in Manhattan, Kansas, in August. There is…
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wrecked.org I'll be moving soon and thanks to friends and a VERY PATIENT brother-in-law (a prince among men), I am going to pack my belongings, load them, and meet up with them in Manhattan, Kansas, in August. There is…
wrecked.org I love the idea of recycling, upcycling, bicycling… It seems that the idea of “reduce, reuse, recycle, educate” has biblical parallels: one person’s trash becomes another’s transformed product. Artwork, household goods, industrial items, water, ideas, and more can be…
What if we celebrated the go-ers and servants and doers and wipers of noses and holders of hands rotted by leprosy and the diggers of wells and lovers of souls as we do the pretending actors of the movies? What…
I've been camping out this weekend…camping in really. Camping In = pup sitting, a workshop on prayer (God is faithful.), engaging in a little financial maintenance, reading, looking at the stars, and thinking. It's been good. Revelatory. Somewhere between the Princess…
Fall down seven times, stand up eight. sounds like a plan. you see we’re going to fall. we’re going to fail the people we love and respect the most. we’re going to faceplant. Alrighty. Get back up. Toby Mac made…
Thanks dads. You know who you are. The guys who will fix your kid's bike before you run off to your own tour de prairie. You're the guy who also helps fix your neighbor kids' bikes because their dad…
I had intended to write about how our hearts are wired towards Home Coming; how life's real riches are in the relationships we nurture – most importantly in family – and how a great visit can make parting tears unnecessary…
Our living is made up of ordinary days; tornado-less, going-to-work, feed-the-cat, Ides-of-March days. We live in get up-stretch-scratch-shuffle-off-to-launch-the-coffee and amble-towards-the-loo sort of days. Let's face it; life is not like Disneyland. Not every moment is high resolution picture-perfect.…
We have become a culture of bystanders and voyeurs. What were once world class news outlets are now gossip columns and the Hollywood town tattler. We are inundated with the glittery backwash of the rich, famous, and maybe-talented. And we…