Blooming Where You’re Planted (1)

Eugene Peterson writes, “The person… who looks for quick results in the seed planting of well-doing will be disappointed. If I want potatoes for dinner tomorrow, it will do me little good to go out and plant potatoes in my garden tonight. There are long stretches of darkness and invisibility and silence that [...]

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The Grass Isn’t Greener

After living a gazillion places, having a thousand jobs, being up in front of people playing music and speaking, mopping floors, having money and being dirt poor, receiving accolades and awards, and being made fun of, I have realized that none of this earthly stuff is ever enough. One might think that after having [...]

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Deserving Nothing

I recently read a quotation from a famous pastor that relayed the following message. Those who deserve nothing should be content with anything.
We do live in an entitlement age. We feel entitled to get what we deserve. We see this on talk shows, on the news and to those desiring to get [...]

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Where There is No Water

In tough times, I often flip my Bible to Psalm 63 and read words penned by David in one of his most trying times. “O God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you. My soul thirsts for You; my whole body longs for You in this parched and weary land where [...]

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When Good Desires Become Demands

“When good desires become demands, they turn into an idol and replace God.” As my teaching pastor said this last night, the sting made it’s way deep into my heart. I believe this statement can sum up many seasons in my Christian life - this one included.
In the past, one area that has [...]

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Here and now - today

This past Thursday and Friday, I got to go hang out with a friend in Nashville to pick his brain about music stuff and to get some good counsel. Matthew Perryman Jones is one of the most gifted musicians I have ever been around and the rawness of his realness nourishes my soul.
As we [...]

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Struggling with singleness

This is an excerpt from an email I sent to a friend tonight.
Hey, I believe my heart can coincide and agree with you. Circumstances shouldn’t dictate our joy, but they quite often do.
So 31 and still no blips on the radar for me? Somehow, it is O.K. tonight though. On [...]

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Waiting is hard business

31 now and I read on my wall “I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.”
It is a difficult thing to wait. That which I believed hesitantly about my life at 25 I still believe now at 31. I would be a fool to not see tremendous growth [...]

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