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1:06 a.m. {on climbing mountains}
I rarely see these wee hours of the morning. But some foolish part of me agreed to a sunrise hike today, which means I’m leaving my house at 2 a.m. to get to a trailhead by 3:30 a.m. to climb …...
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Dissonance
In my college communication classes, we called it cognitive dissonance, that feeling of friction you get when what you’re doing doesn’t necessarily line up with what you believe. That’s where I’m at....
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Nine fingers and thousand-piece puzzles
I’m typing this with nine fingers. It’s pretty difficult. You see, I took a knife to my left index finger last week. Completely by accident, I assure you. But it resulted in a chunk of flesh missing...
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The crooked ways
When I lived in Thailand a friend and I took a “jungle trek.” The second day the guide told us that because of the rain we hiked through on the first day, the original route for day two was too …...
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Mission trips: What we’re doing wrong and how to get it right
As a Christian, I’ve done my fair share of short-term mission work…local community projects, hurricane relief in New Orleans, half a year spent in Thailand. And I never once questioned whether I should...
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Quarters and romance and mountain territories
I’ll be 25 on my next birthday. My friend Missy says I should be excited because it’s a quarter year and quarters are super useful for things like laundry and vending machines. It’s not that I fear...
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Though it tarry
“Though it tarry, wait for it.” This Christmas, the word in my soul is wait. For most people, Christmas is the end of waiting. The wait of thousands of years for the birth of the babe in Bethlehem is...
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No resolutions, just an overwhelming resolve
I don’t really like New Year’s resolutions. I’m sorry, but they just seem incredibly trite and cliché and don’t we all break them by February anyway? So I don’t make resolutions. Instead, I think about...
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Highways and Off-Beaten Paths
There are so many voices in our heads. Saying go there, do this, buy that. Saying be safe, be stable, stay on the highways. Somewhere deep within, though, buried under those voices is a different...
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the Estuary {week three}
I spent last weekend at the estuary of the Volta River, the place where the Volta meets the Atlantic. I stayed on a finger-like sliver of land separating river from ocean, and each morning I sat on a...
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