I've been ruined. There, I said it. By the grace of Jesus I am realizing more and more how I'm being restored. I am being reclaimed. Redeemed. Learning how much of me is still cracked, but realizing that I'm not as responsible for fixing myself as i once thought. I am being fixed [...]
I commented via my Twitter a few days ago that the two greatest days in your life are (1) the day you are born, and (2) the day you realize why. I’m not sure where or when I first realized (or possibly, heard) that, but it resonates within me still. I’m incredibly blessed to know [...]
Sometimes we completely miss it. At our neighborhood amenity center, we have two pools: the deep, lap pool where the teenagers hang out and old guys do laps, and the shallow, zero-entry pool where the younger (and less serious swimmers) play and parents snooze. On our first visit, the smaller pool was overpopulated with preschoolers [...]
If you follow me on Twitter, you know that a funny thing happened on the way to the guitar shop yesterday. I was driving in south Austin on my lunch break when my fuel light came on. I noticed an old 7-Eleven about a block off of South Lamar and whipped in to get gas. [...]
Economic times are tough. While our boys love running to Barnes and Noble (or the local library) and picking up a couple of new books (like their dad), books can be expensive. The solution? Our 8-year-old designed and illustrated a book for our 5-year-old. The Alean Invation To: Dylan "On one pecful day the [...]
Today is a great day. Darkness and light. Yin and yang. Salt and pepper. Regular and decaf. In the words of Morpheus, "fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony". As I’ve mentioned before, today is the birthday of two men who have highly influenced the culture of my life, good or [...]
While we were out guitar shopping/dreaming a few days ago, my 7-year-old spotted a red sports car out of the truck window as it whizzed by and said, “Dad, red cars are the fast ones, y’know?” “Really…?” I responded. “Yep. The red ones are. Cuz they’re red.” Flashback: I said the same thing when I [...]
The annual Breathe Deep conference in Kemah was great this year. At least for Heather and I. We got to hang out and talk guitars and worship with the sparky David Gentiles. I admit, I’m still jealous over his redwood MacPherson 3.5 acoustic guitar. And he’s a great guy as well. Lance Crowell did [...]
iMonk has a great post titled "The Jesus-shaped Question: Are Christians Like Jesus?". After reading and reflecting on Philippians 3:7-8, he has some great thoughts which may be offensive to some. Something that leaped out at me this morning is this: Christians are conservatives and liberals. Christians are culture warriors and advocates of family [...]
I’ve cried for a week now. Last August, DaNetta Hagerman, a dear friend ,youthworker, and mother, passed away in a fatal car accident. Last Thursday morning, her husband, Larry, was involved in an accident at work and suffered fatal head wounds. After he was Care Flighted to the ER and rushed into emergency neurosurgery all [...]