Embracing a Quiet Season

This year has been painfully difficult, making everyone eager to see it end. In no time, the calendar page will turn and present us with the gift we’ve been longing for—2021. A blissful new year. Hope and potential reimagined. As I creep like a child to the edge of 2020 and peer into the unknown,…

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Popularity and Influence Aren’t the Same Thing

Earlier this year, I launched my author website. I did so because my first website, Earl Grey and Yellow, contains only Christian-focused content. I created it as a personal hobby blog without future pursuits in mind. It served as a therapeutic means of expressing myself after sustaining a serious back injury that ended my ability…

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Avoiding Distraction and Staying the Course

I don’t know many people living leisurely, stress-free lives. Probably none, actually. Jobs, kids, obligations, activities–all of these keep our foot on the gas, going and going at a pace that’s not sustainable. While we may not be able to scale back some of the more fixed aspects of our lives, we do have some…

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Humanity Isn’t Political: Christ, Trump, and COVID

Breaking news this week revealed that President Trump, his wife, and a number of close aides have been diagnosed with COVID-19. This news sends our already contentious election cycle into further chaos. Depending on the outcome for those infected, this could have major implications for the election. Politics aside, I have been horrified by some…

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What Fuels Your Fire?

Along with everyone else, I’ve had quite a strange year. A pandemic, natural disasters, civil unrest, political strife–a heaping portion of everything it seems. It’s been hard to deal with. If we were only dealing with a single one of these difficulties, it would be bad enough. Yet we’re smack dab in the midst of…

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