You are more like Dexter Morgan than you think. In fact you are very, very much like Dexter, and like Walter White. They both have family that they care about, just like you. They both are struggling with who they are, just like you. They both are hiding something, just like you. They both fearContinue reading “Lessons in love from Dexter and Breaking Bad, prt. 2”
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Lessons in love from Dexter and Breaking Bad
If you have not watched either Showtime’s Dexter, or AMC’s Breaking Bad, chances are pretty good you have been living in a hole, but I’ll begin with a quick summary. Dexter tells the story of Dexter Morgan, a handsome, charismatic blood spatter analyst who moonlights as a serial killer, killing only the guilty who wereContinue reading “Lessons in love from Dexter and Breaking Bad”
Staying Open, Choosing Life
Today I was thinking about all the different perspectives people bring to the world. Some people are happy and optimistic. Some are always negative. Some believe if they work hard they will eventually succeed. Others believe in fate — that life is already laid out for them and there’s nothing they can do to changeContinue reading “Staying Open, Choosing Life”
Heartquake
Until the moment my first child was born, I didn’t have the capacity to love a child. I know this because of the magnitude of the heartquake I experienced when I first saw her. In that moment, everything began to shake. All of my assumptions about myself. All of my selfish worries that I couldn’tContinue reading “Heartquake”
Love Wins? Count On It!
What’s the Big Deal? I just finished reading Rob Bell’s latest book, Love Wins. I did this because so many people have asked my opinion about it. Love Wins is the first Rob Bell book I have ever completed. His material normally is not challenging or enlightening to me on any level whatsoever. Love Wins wasContinue reading “Love Wins? Count On It!”
Be the Change
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”] One of Gandhi’s most famous quotes is, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” This pretty well wraps up the heart of true spirituality. True spirituality stops “waiting on the world to change,” recognizing that the world will not change until individual human beings change. The reason thisContinue reading “Be the Change”
Children
It is said that to have a child is to have your heart walking around outside your body. Think of that imagery. So dangerous, so fragile. Our physical heart is behind a rib CAGE for a reason — it is precious. But we can’t keep our children in cages. All we can do is hopeContinue reading “Children”
The Shame That Drives Us
The Shame Game By and large, churches are still trying to shame people into right living. Some of the biggest-selling books on Christian living in the past few years are shame-based books. Shame-based books are written by (usually well-intentioned) shame-based people who live shame-based lives and preach a shame-based gospel. You’d think after centuries ofContinue reading “The Shame That Drives Us”
In search of “Sandi’s”
Thank you for the incredibly warm and supportive comments I have received from many of you on this blog, via email, in person, etc., with regard to my last post about the loss of my friend Sandi. Her funeral is Tuesday and I’m already beginning to think a lot about it, feeling deeply sad, andContinue reading “In search of “Sandi’s””
For Sandi
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]Sandi — far right, with Beth, Tammy, and Kay[/featured-image] I moved to Davison from Lapeer in the summer, just before starting 5th grade. The transition was rough. I was in an awkward stage, to say the least. I had bucked teeth and giant freckles on my cheeks. My dad taught at GatesContinue reading “For Sandi”
Temp Arbor 