More than meets the eye

I love driving from the Eisenhower tunnel, down through the Rocky Mountains and into Denver (my home town). As you go barreling down I-70, you round one mountain, just to see another, and another and another. And just when you think that you are forever trapped in this rocky landscape, you round a curve and […]

Tooth-tify

Yesterday was a friend’s going away party at work. We had lunch at Uncle Julio’s, a local Mexican restaurant. I was munching away on a basket of chips when I thought I bit on a course piece of cornmeal. It wasn’t cornmeal. It was my tooth. Crushed that sucker to bits. All that remains […]

Dream

Last night I dreamt that I was in a dinner with my wife’s grandparents. It was just the three of us. Her grandfather and I were on one side of a booth, her grandmother on the other. There was a TV overhead. They were playing a news story about bullying disabled children. Jenn’s […]

All is Relevant, None is True

The final hours of 2011 are ticking away. And my thoughts in these waning hours, as is often the case, revolve around faith. I guess the title of this entry pretty well sums up my recent train of thought. I have been pondering the words of John Lennon in the song Imagine and reading some […]

Bizarro Christmas

This should be a pretty short entry. I am just checking in to say, “Merry Christmas.” This Christmas is bizarre to say the very least. Why? My faith is on the rocks. I have no family coming or going to share the holiday. Work is intense. My wife has to work ‘round the clock. And […]

I Can Do All Things (Phil four thirteen)

Go to church long enough and the same topics and scriptures are repeated. If they use the lectionary it is roughly every three years or so. At most churches it is somewhere between 3 and 5 years…except around Christmas and Easter, they are repeated annually. Rarely do you hear a good sermon about Jael driving […]

Perspective

So yesterday I had my weekly bitch session with John. Sometimes I am sickened by the sound of my own voice. I whine about every aspect of my life. I am somewhat of an expert on the subject of me…at least the non-functional parts. The theme of this week’s discussion was perspective. By my own […]

Big Fat Baby

This morning I had to drop off some supplies at my son’s school. I was in a bit of a rush and I was not watching where I was going. That was when a traffic pylon decided to attack me in broad daylight. I fell pretty hard. I got scraped up and jammed my pinky. […]

Liturgical Spin Cycle

Growing up Pentecostal, the faith was focused on experience. Emotional ecstasy was the goal of worship. About my junior year of college (at a Pentecostal school), a friend of mine invited me to go to church with him. I was a drama geek at the time and he was the cool rogue guy who was […]

Not the three toed variety

So the past couple of nights, I have been watching the history channel. They have had a cheesy documentary on the Seven Deadly Sins. I found it all very interesting until they did the show on Sloth. Then I started feeling a little uncomfortable. Now I have always thought of sloth as being lazy, not […]