The Utmost Clarity

My wife tells the story of getting her first pair of glasses when she was a kid. She didn’t understand why her parents and optometrist thought she needed them, as she had always seen everything perfectly fine. The optometrist was located in a mall, and upon...

Don’t Drink the Poison

Several years ago, we met our family in Minneapolis to celebrate Christmas. We were fortunate to stay at a hotel connected to the Mall of America, allowing us to go in and out of the mall as we pleased (especially nice in Minnesota during the winter). A certain coffee...

Holiness + Love

The words holiness and love have become pretty hollow words today. For most of us, they certainly haven’t kept their biblical meanings. I hate to admit it, but when I hear the word “holy” I imagine a very stern finger being pointed in my direction....

Dirty, stinky, pigs

This past week I’ve been out in “the bush” of Nicaragua visiting communities without electricity, water, medical care, education beyond 6th grade, and more. A interrsting aspect of this communities is that the livestock is very much communal. There are no barns,...

Measuring Success

As a runner, I often get asked how I did on a particular run or race. I find such questions particularly vexing because success in running is extremely relative. A 44-minute 10K would be a disaster for many runners, but for me it would be a personal best. Getting on...