Of Chaos and Order

I’ve wondered how #ai might be a useful writing assistant.

I’ve built a website for one of my favorite food trucks in the Black Hills, Savour Pinoy & Sushi.

I haven’t written as much on my website of late.

We reserved our 10th anniversary adventure trip yesterday night.

In the space of a few hours I’ve done work across at least three technical domains that are usually each their own jobs.

Today is Amie and Amanda’s first women’s DBS since the holiday break.

The Order of the Common Life #ocl postulancy began this week and the week prior I began to meet with Westminster staff to discuss chapters of the book “God In My Everything.”

I’m struggling with feelings of incompetence and humiliation.

Meditating today on some of the injustices which MLK Jr sought to overthrow, I’ve felt ashamed that my whole life hasn’t been swallowed up in the fight as I feel it ought to be for the cause of #justice.

The reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.

Two days I’ve had lunchtime commitments: #SpiritualDirection and lunch with a friend.

I’ve begun to slowly add a few rhythms in January as a precursor for the start of the postulancy.

We’ve managed the twelve days of Christmas in our household again this year.

Christmas was another wonderful, exciting and exhausting day.

On Christmas Eve we joined Westminster’s nativity skit.

We rode the 1880 Christmas train again this year.

This year Amie convinced me to get a smaller Christmas tree, but the process was equally fun (and less back-breaking).

Royal has been attending a ninja class for a few months.

My office had become a dumping ground for all the odds-and-ends that float around our home.

I’m grateful that Amie and I spent a little time last night talking about goals for 2024.

I’ve enjoyed this holiday season more than last year by a wide margin.

Christmas accomplished.

Christmas is almost here!

Today I used two skills from high school.

Below is the full response from Larry Wall, the creator of the Perl programming language, to a question about faith in God.

This is my 500th post!

I hit a milestone today.

“Evicted” by Matthew Desmond calls to mind a frustration I’ve had for many years.

I’ve been reading the book “Evicted” by Matthew Desmond.

One week until Christmas!

My second day off was spent with my sons, and that’s made these some of my favorite days.

Graham and Royal sang in a little choir production from their school tonight.

It’s been awhile since I posted any pictures.

Thought I’d collect these thoughts from my logs of last night’s symphony.

A big part of what made this symphony especially fun was the Davis Sisters: Dee+Shapeera, Kandra and LaDreeva.

Lastly, the symphony is nostalgic, prophetic and FUN.

The symphony is nostalgic, and it’s also prophetic.

Amie and her parents treated us to a date at the symphony last night.

When we leave reality for a mental creation of our own doing (hidden assumptions), we create a counterfeit world.

Conflict and trouble were central to the mission of Jesus.

Revelation, one of the most badly interpreted and misunderstood books of the Bible, contains the key to why most present-day Christians are overwhelmed by the culture and the world around us: we underestimate the intensity and power of evil–both outside a…

The reason we need to stop and be with God is so we might create a continual and easy familiarity with God’s presence at all times–while working, playing, cooking, taking out the garbage, driving, visiting friends, as well as during worship, prayer, and B…

The top ten symptoms of emotionally unhealthy spirituality: Using God to run from God Ignoring the emotions of anger, sadness, and fear Dying to the wrong things Denying the past’s impact on the present Dividing our lives into “secular” and “sacred” compa…

Beyond my times of reading the Bible, I now needed time to pay attention to what was happening within me each day so that I could bring that to God also.

Jesus was not selfless.

Gerald Sittser, in his book A Grace Disguised, reflects on the loss of his mother, wife, and young daughter from a horrific car accident.

Emotional health and spiritual maturity are inseparable.

The spirituality of most current discipleship models often only adds an additional protective layer against people growing up emotionally.

Emotional Health naming, recognizing, and managing our own feelings identifying with and having active compassion for others initiating and maintaining close and meaningful relationships breaking free from self-destructive patterns being aware of how our…