The Gloriously Human Condition
My goal is to pepper you with snapshots of exactly that, what the gloriously human condition really looks like. It includes our glorious wins and losses; our best moments, and our worst, and the beauty/glorious complexity of human relationships. It will be a blend of how to connect with others because of and in spite of, the glorious human condition. It will explore all aspects of faith… Real faith. Gritty, honest, hard-fought and beautiful.
Please join me to for a deep dive into the gloriously human condition!
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Risen
Functional Atheism? One day I want to identify as many of the elements that are toxic to a heathy spiritual as I can. So often they operate just like a very accomplished pickpocket in the subway. You don’t know that your wallet is missing until you get home. That’s what happens for me, for all
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RE-newal
Change. If there is just one word in the English language that captures the heart of the human condition it is change. In fact, it is said that the only constant in our lives is change. But it is how we respond to change it dictates the quality of our lives, and our relationships. Change?
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RE – ality
I just can’t stop thinking about the transformative effect of consciously choosing to re-story our lives. Because the process of restoring/re-storying our lives is born from perspective, it can never be completely objective. We unconsciously pick and choose aspects of our life narrative that fit with the story we have in our heads about ourselves.
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“It’s not up to you!”
The voice inaudible, but crystal clear, penetrated my heart. Perhaps the most beautiful aspect of the hearing was that it was SO true. It just “felt“ true – from someone greater, smarter, clearer than me. Certainly not from me. I don’t come up with stuff like that. I am so eager to take the wheel
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Restoration:
Definitions: “To put or to bring back to an earlier or original state” Fascinating, right? So if we are talking about personal restoration, the definition would suggest that we are being put back to “an earlier or original state.” Does this mean our goal is to get back to the garden? Back to God’s original
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Intimate Relationships
Over the next few months I really would like to focus on intimate relationships in the gloriously human condition. So just a word of clarity before we begin. I believe that every relationship we have in life needs to have a degree of intimacy. I don’t believe there is a border wall between those that
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RE-tirement
Retirement is such an odd dynamic in life. Just the word implies static, lack of movement and retreat. Many in this time of life invest a tremendous amount of energy moving backward in life. Resentment, regret, and life hurts dominate and sap their energy and ravage their bodies. Life by design is dynamic, moving forward
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MY Gloriously Human Condition
My gloriously human condition is ever-changing. Six months ago I accepted an invitation from a couple who are potentially my best friends on the planet. They invited me to visit them in their vacation home in Tucson for a couple of days. Having lived in Seattle for the past 25 years I thought my body
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Glorious Pauses
Have you ever caught yourself saying or doing some thing and then pausing to make sure that you believe it is what you really wanted to do or say? As I age, I find myself doing this more and more and I’m pretty happy about it. That pause, see what I just did there? Commas
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Child-like
Anyone who has experienced being grown-up for even one day understands how overrated it is. I know all of us probably spent a lot of our childhood’s wishing we were an adult. Whether it was because our circumstances were unbearable as a child, or we simply thought the accoutrements of adulthood were too enticing. Most
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Happy Marriage?
Our wonky culture has a tendency to create great confusion about what our goal in marriage is. Very often the message is that marriage exists primarily to meet our needs and to make us happy. As I have observed hundreds of marriages very closely in my office in marriage counseling it has become clear to
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