Ten years ago, fresh out of the Navy and having just met the woman I would end up marrying, I set out from Big Bear, CA, on what was to be an 11,000 mile motorcycle trip that took me to the top of Alaska and back. It was before the days of uber-capable […]
Category Archives: Thoughts
Things I Learned at Church Today
I’ve long taken notes at church with the thought that one day I might go back and review the things I learned. For a little while I even went so far as to take pictures of my notes at the end of church. In all the years I’ve done this I have never, not once, […]
Street View
Someone asked me about the motorcycle trip recently. Long story short…I’ve been putting a little time into cleaning up the old, busted website (old.carotidbattery.com) which has sent me on a trip down memory lane. Out of curiosity, I checked Google Maps to see if the beginning of the Dalton Highway was on Street View. […]
Grandpa Ed
My Grandpa passed away on the morning of Friday, March 18th. I’m writing this as we drive back down from Spanish Fork, UT, where we held the memorial service yesterday. My Grandpa Ed married my Grandma Smitty when he was 54. He inherited a big family and, after being a bachelor the whole first part […]
syringe
I recently went to a doctor’s appointment with my wife, an appointment which involved her getting a shot. The medicine was suspended in oil, so it was extremely viscous. The needle itself, however, was very small gauge and it took a long time for the nurse to both fill it up and push it out. […]
american:christian
I’ve been reading (listening to, actually) John Piper’s “Don’t Waste Your Life” and it has served to further solidify the following thought in my mind: to be a “good” Christian means to be a “bad” American, and vice versa. This is not a resignation (America is lost…give up), nor is it a novel idea, but […]
creativity, pt.2
I’ve been thinking through this whole, you know, creativity thing…a lot of thoughts. I don’t think I’m going to try to keep this coherent…it’s just going to be a lot of verbal spitting. I think that God makes some people creative, and others more creative. I think the only ones of us who are not […]
creativity
Sometimes I think that I’m creative but just don’t have the time or resources to adequately express my creativity. But then, upon having that thought, I wonder if, simply by virtue of me thinking that, it means I’m really not that creative after all. I mean, most of the “creative” people I know have only been […]
Hosanna!…oh, wait, nevermind.
Short post here on something that’s been bouncing around in my head since this weekend. I had a pretty low day Saturday…one thing led to another and I found myself in the toilet of negativity, calling to my savior, Eeyore. Sunday morning arrived and within a few minutes of being in church I was profoundly […]
Hope
Hope is a magical thing. Similar to other elements of the Christian life, hope often runs counter to what makes sense, both from a cultural and an experiential perspective. Quickly list off in your mind or on paper the top 10 or more reasons why you don’t hope, or why you lose hope. It’s probably […]
