Posts Tagged: tension

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You don’t control.

“I can participate in creating something I do not control.” -Peter Block, in The Answer To How Is Yes (Bold claim coming…) This is life’s central tension. We exist in a space that we have little (if any) control over. 

/ Life

You don’t control.

“I can participate in creating something I do not control.” -Peter Block, in The Answer To How Is Yes (Bold claim coming…) This is life’s central tension. We exist in a space that we have little (if any) control over. 

/ God, Life

Inner Space

Last week at the Young Life All-Staff Celebration I learned that pastoral leaders: Experience emotion more deeply than others Offer a defensive, superlative self (a.k.a. they need to be liked) Carry a depressive trait (twice the national average) Know shame

/ God, Life

Inner Space

Last week at the Young Life All-Staff Celebration I learned that pastoral leaders: Experience emotion more deeply than others Offer a defensive, superlative self (a.k.a. they need to be liked) Carry a depressive trait (twice the national average) Know shame

/ Life

The Memory of a Memory

What is nostalgia?  I typed that question and then had to go look up the word because I wasn’t actually sure.  As you are probably saying to yourself right now, yes, nostalgia is a longing for the past, often in

/ Life

The Memory of a Memory

What is nostalgia?  I typed that question and then had to go look up the word because I wasn’t actually sure.  As you are probably saying to yourself right now, yes, nostalgia is a longing for the past, often in

/ God, Life

This is hard to grasp.

In about 125 words, the story of Achan (from the book of Joshua, chapter 7) goes something like this: After 40 years in the desert, God’s people finally enter the promised land.  Joshua, their leader, is the man.  The bible

/ God, Life

This is hard to grasp.

In about 125 words, the story of Achan (from the book of Joshua, chapter 7) goes something like this: After 40 years in the desert, God’s people finally enter the promised land.  Joshua, their leader, is the man.  The bible