I never felt comfortable in my home town. It never quite felt like home. My skin would crawl when I had been there too long, and my heart seemed to ache for all the places I had never been... but never for home. As a teenager, I was terrified of getting trapped in my small…
Tag: Jesus
Stay
The first thing I do when something new begins in my life is slap a big fat expiration date on it. I guess it's not always big and fat. Sometimes I scribble it on the back out of sheer habit, but other times I pull out the label maker and use the large print. I'm…
To Be Chosen
"Somebody raise a silent hand and tell me--" FIVE BILLION HANDS IN THE AIR. Okay, maybe not five billion. But a solid 87% of the little ones at the summer theatre camp I work at will volunteer to answer a question before they even know what the question is. This baffled me when I first…
Genuine Generosity
I'd like to be the kind of person that gives without conditions, expectations, or ultimatums. I understand that the desire to give and the desire to receive are something of a package deal, but sometimes I find myself giving only in the hopes that I will get a return. I don't really think that's giving.…
When You Stop Believing In God
I cried a lot on Thursday. I cried in my therapy session, I cried on the bus, I cried in the Target parking lot, I cried in the car on the way to work, and then I got in a big hurry and I forgot to cry the rest of the evening. I think I…
Breakfast and Jesus: Take It In
In the past week, I've written the majority of a feature length screenplay that I'm working on. I have no idea what I'm doing, but I'm doing it really hard. I didn't get as much work done this weekend as I would have liked to, but that's okay because I was volunteering at a film…
You Can’t Go Forward
Today has been maybe one of the longest days of my life. Let's just say that Atlanta is trudging through a snowpocalypse. I mean seriously. Devastation. It's practically a wasteland.Did I mention there are about two inches of snow?As I was sitting in my bathroom floor asking God to speak to me this morning, it…
