Archive for March, 2009

THE POWERLESSNESS-DRIVEN LIFE

on 22 Mar 2009

  On my flight to Orlando I sat next to a woman who was travelling to Florida to run a marathon.  It only took me a few minutes to identify that she was a serious runner.  She had the well-toned legs of a runner, and she carried her most prized possession with her on the […]

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AN UNLIKELY SURPRISE

on 13 Mar 2009

This past month I found myself in a not-so-surprising set of circumstances.  My life seems to run in a cycle of working myself into exhaustion only to collapse.  I completely identify with Henri Nouwen’s confession in his book, In The Name of Jesus, “. . . I came to see that I had lived most […]

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