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The tax of cheap pleasures
I would have wanted to be lost in the work. But I caved in to cheap pleasures. And so I let the day go by, rolling over the bed—in and out of consciousness, then out of the bed but still mentally hollow—allowing myself to be consumed by nothing in particular but everything that goes through… Read more
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Delays, disappointments, impossible dreams
Today’s Bible reading reminded me to say “It’s not too late” when I am tempted to be cynical or give up amid delays and disappointments. With my dreams seemingly impossible in human terms—or my mind can’t simply grasp an idea beyond the now—I would have laughed at that too when I was told that it… Read more
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Letter no. 53
Dear reader from the future, I am writing this in yet another season of waiting in my life. Waiting—the kind I used to resist. But perhaps the difference this season is that the destination is clearer than it was a year or two years ago. I’d like to believe that I am now able to… Read more
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You have to really want it
Look at that dog. He sees exactly what he wants. No second-guessing. No wondering if he deserves it. Just…wanting. And if you want it so much, that you can’t take another day not having it or attaining it, then what are you gonna do about it? If the wanting remains an idea, a dream, without… Read more
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Station Eleven (by Emily St. John Mandel)
I first wrote about Station Eleven in an earlier post, and even then, I already knew it was the kind of book that doesn’t leave you easily. But reading it two years into a real pandemic changed something about the experience. The dystopia Mandel imagined is far worse than what we lived through, and yet… Read more
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Domesticating God
After writing the Name It, Claim It blog post, I kept looking for a better way to describe how we treat God like a cosmic vending machine—and then I found it: Yes, sometimes we humans try to rope God into our dark plots and use God to help us scramble to the top of the… Read more
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Everyday Stories, Lived
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