I apologize for this post being late. Last week, I was busy taking care of my younger cousin Caden. I had a blast doing so, but the whole endeavor was exhausting. I found my mind occupied by how best to take care of him all the time. I have several friends and family members who …
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Walking Forward
Waking up at six in the morning is quite the experience if you’re used to sleeping in later. The old English proverb says: “early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise” rings true whenever I get up. Granted, I can be rather slow at getting up, but I find …
The Crisis of Strength
Nothing describes the problems we have in the modern-day than the crisis of strength. People in charge are making lots of promises that they just aren’t keeping. Rather than owning up to this fact, they instead double down on failed tactics or evade the promise using entertaining distractions. I began to think these thoughts as …
Pray Without Ceasing
So many people nowadays think that prayer is something people do on Sundays, but as the passage above suggests, people ought to be praying to God all the time! Don’t feel too bad about this: I’m as guilty of not thinking about God as any of you guys, perhaps more than not. However, ever since …
An Exquisite Idea for Creativity
If you’ve been to the movies nowadays, a pattern emerges in the kinds of things that are premiering. Most of the movies are adaptations of comic books, reboots of movies from the 1980s, and cliché schlock that seems to blend all together. Now, reimagining older works isn’t necessarily a bad thing. However, it seems like …
Moving In
When I moved up to College Station for the first time, I was a bit nervous but mostly excited. This was my chance to get away from my parents and strike out on my own, at least for a little while. I was truly independent; I would be my own man. In my naivete, I …
What’s the Point of Prayer?
A popular convention of fantasy fiction is the idea that prayer is done for God’s sake, that God depends on our worship of him for power and sustenance. A book series I used to read, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, depicts its gods in this way. In that series, Rick Riordan weaves a tale of …
Some Thoughts on Marriage
As of this post, my mom and dad are celebrating their thirtieth wedding anniversary out of town. After all these years, they love each other very much, and I’m so happy for them. I think that they are, in some ways, the model couple. They work together on any problem they have, and they complement …
Make the Sale
This week is my dad’s birthday. Words cannot express how grateful I am for his helping provide for our family with his position in sales. I’ve talked before about the advice he’s given me when it comes to learning to listen to people, asking the right questions, and appreciating the stories they tell. Though I …
The Angelic Doctor’s Remedy for Dealing with Sorrow
The first word most people tend to describe academics with is “aloof.” Academics don’t have a reputation for being concerned with the problems of everyday people. Professional academics are more likely to interact with literature created by other academics than they are with someone outside their ivory towers, or so they say. This isn’t true …
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