Bedlam
A confession: I did not grow up as primarily an OSU fan. I was actually a University of Tulsa fan due to my parents and grandparents. Sure, I followed OSU a bit and my aunt went to school in Stillwater...
View ArticleA New Project: Blogging Our First Year of Marriage
A little under two months from now I will be marrying the love of my life. I truly cannot wait for that day. We are going through pre-marital counseling at The Stone and we are learning so much, and we...
View ArticleAdvice to My Cousins
I have two younger cousins that are graduating from high school this year. I have been thinking about how I would advise them to prepare for the rest of their lives. Here is a bit of my advice:...
View ArticleThe worst advice I’ve ever heard
What is the worst advice you have ever heard? How about this? Do what makes you happy Or, its corollary: Follow your heart/feelings I was prompted to consider this question by Rod Dreher’s blog where...
View ArticleThe table bears the weight of all
Photo by Steven Bush They sit around a dinner table, sheltered in the warmth of friends and food, bulwarks against the dark and rainy night, both within and without. Eight people, for whom this common...
View ArticleIs Austin really a ‘no kill’ city?
Saturday at the first weekend of the Austin City Limits Music Festival was a beautiful day. It started off warm, but cooled down to a nice, rare, fall afternoon in Austin. Lindsey and I go to ACL every...
View ArticleWhere I found hope in the death of my grandmother
Last Friday I gave the eulogy at my grandmother’s funeral. My grandmother, Mary Downey, was an incredible woman of faith and love. She was diagnosed with cancer that advanced very quickly, just two...
View ArticleA beautiful reflection
We stood on the banks of the Rio Grande, just yards away from the threshold of the Santa Elena Canyon, with tears in our eyes. Without taking her eyes off the sunset in the canyon, my wife said to me,...
View ArticleFind rest in other mediums
Last week was one of those weeks we all have occasionally, where the schedule is full, your mind is engaged all week, and yet somehow you’re not dead at the end of it. Through a long hard week, I came...
View ArticleA New Year
Stability is not a given, and when we have it, it’s usually not a blessing. That might sound crazy to you, but I’ve come to believe it firmly in the last year. When I looked forward to 2014 a year ago,...
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