Archive for February, 2010

If You’ve Never Failed, You’ve Never Lived

I saw this on my brother’s FB feed this morning and thought it was brilliant…  Failure is just another step on the way to success. How have you allowed failures to kept you meager, docile or inferior? What failures will you rise above?

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Entitled Parking for Mr. Mom

A few weeks ago, I visited the campus of Belmont University in Nashville.  Anne Jackson and Mike Foster were participating in a series called “Sex & the Soul” and since I see these two as sort of kindred spirits of the same efforts, I wanted to see them in action.  It was briskly cold out and ...

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Bait and Switch and Switch Again

My wife bought me a subscription to a magazine over a year ago, a deal where you subscribe for one year and they give you two. This was a great magazine called Best Life, one of the few men’s magazines that wasn’t filled with skin tone and articles about sex. Well, that’s not altogether true, ...

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Tiger’s Invitation to Grace

My heart completely identifies with Tiger.  I’ve been in that place of shame, brokenness and guilt.  I know what it’s like to feel embarrassed and ridiculed.  Worst of all, I know what it’s like to have it all self-inflicted. Shame is one of the most debilitating emotions on the the human psyche.  Instantly, we are ...

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Lost in My Own Fog

My nearly one year old daughter’s room is right next to ours.  At some point throughout the night, I’ll awake to the THWACK of a randomly thrown pacifier projectile nailing the wall between us.  It’s effortless, emotionless and consistent… this is the foreshadow of what’s to come. Within the next hour, I will hear through ...

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