My grocery store made a bold...
Essays
What If Staring at People While They Sleep Isn’t Necessarily Psychopathic but a Misinterpreted Yearning to See the Sleeper as They Will Look When Perfected?
I share a common interest with psychopaths:...
Pulling Myself Out of a Funk to Get Back into the Race That is Lent
I had some sort of respiratory virus at the...
The Homeschool Discernment: With and Without the Rainbows and Sunshine
A friend was trying to discern whether or not to start homeschooling her children and she asked for my thoughts on my experiences as a...
Memento Mori
“She would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life. “ – the Misfit from “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor In Flanner O’Connor’s...
Jesus the Master Electrician
Dr. Tim Gray of the Augustine Institute referred to the Ascension of Our Lord as “completing the circuit.” I thought it an excellent metaphor and it set me to thinking it through...
A Cold, Dead Heart and a Cold-Blooded Icon
I am not an emotional person. In fact, I think I am best described as having a cold, dead heart. A heart of stone would also be apt. I have always been this way. I can’t remember a time when it was not difficult for me to...
Lenten Sacrifices for Those Who Like a Challenge
Lent is coming. It’s a time of prayer, almsgiving and—what it’s probably most known for—fasting. The week preceding Ash Wednesday, a question pops into the heads of...
Trying to Turn and Become Like Children
Part 1: Forgiveness I stopped making dinner and followed the sounds of screaming into the living room where I came upon yet another knock-down drag-out fight between my two youngest who had, apparently, engaged prison rules. There was some question...
What if Overthinking is Actually a Misinterpreted Yearning for Contemplation?
Life is exhausting for overthinkers. Every word we speak, every sentence we write, every action we take, every decision we make has to go through a three-part process....
Die Hard: How It Ultimately Shows Our Hunger for the Living God
It's that time of year - Christmas music in the air, the smell of pine filling the house, tenderly wrapping gifts for loved ones and arguing to the death over whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Behold, the indisputable proof: It’s a theme repeated over and...
A Not-So-Great Defense of King David
I recently read through a discussion on social media about King David. The argument being made was the very notion that the church would hold King David in any kind of esteem proved just how anti-woman and patriarchal the church is. He used his...