May 2012
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Book #45: Catch Me If You Can
I just read another book, bringing my lifetime total to 45.
The book was Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank Abagnale. Yes, it’s the book that the movie of the same name was based on, starring Leonardo DiCaprio - and one of my favorite movies of all time.
Frank Abagnale tells the true story of his exploits as a full fledged con man, from age 16 to 21. In those...
“The Lord is potatoey because he made all the food for us. Matthew 24:8”
– Emma
April 2012
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March 2012
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An Effort To Shock Life Back To Its Rhythm
The last 7 days have been total shit, which doesn’t happen often, but when it does it always draws me into a deep and selfish hole of hopelessness that I have little choice but to wallow in as life falls apart all around me, constantly sloughing itself off like a locust its body, which I imagine is both painful and stimulating - like a haircut, but with much more discomfort.
I have shit...
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February 2012
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“The chief biblical analogy for baptism is not the water that washes but the...”
– William Willimon from Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter (via taidochino)
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Instructions for Today
If you work in an office at a computer, do the following:
Take of your shoes and socks
Find a pair of scissors
Cut off your slacks at the knees
Remove your tie and untuck your shirt
Find a piece of paper
Write “SEE YOU IN HELL” on the paper
Tape the paper to your computer screen
Storm out of the office
Throw your iPhone in the nearest trash can
Sit on a park bench and find a...
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50/50: Brothers and Sisters, Lately I have been... →
Read this post from a good buddy of mine on what it means to have a solid community of people around you who love and encourage you.
Ben, you may be younger than me, and single, and childless, and basically unemployed, and thereby freewheelin’, but trust me, I’ve learned more from you than you have from me. You are bold, and honest, and fearless, and crushingly humble - remain that...
“Daddy, I have joy in my heart because I really love love love love love love...”
– Emma
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Here's the Trouble, But the Trouble is Liberating....
Being a Christian who pursues the Lord as an ongoing theme of life brings with it some difficult obstacles. Pretty quickly, you’ll come to the end of yourself and one of two things will happen:
You’ll stop.
You’ll continue.
Coming to the end of yourself means you’ve extended yourself in your pursuit of God as far as you ever have before. In high school, this point was a...
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SIX More Books. I'm on a Roll.
I read a few new books, and I added one at the beginning that I had originally left out.
1. Maus, by Art Spiegelman is a two volume graphic novel (biography) about the author/illustrator’s father’s experience as a Jew in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. It is incredible. I didn’t originally include it in this list because it is a graphic novel, but the books were...
January 2012
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The Ultimate Campmobile Man Project
So I was talking with my Dad the other day about building out a bed and gear storage in my truck bed for camping and I couldn’t stop thinking about it - so I did it. Here’s what I did:
1. Start // Here’s the truck bed when I got started. Empty and boring.
2. Frame // I built a simple frame that slides easily in and out (in case I ever need to take it out to haul stuff). The...
WatchThese are the guys behind The Van. My wife and I support their mission monthly. You should too. Think about that 6 year old kid, man.
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December 2011
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November 2011
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“Daddy, I love you because you’re a cute little daddy.”
– Emma (AKA Thing One)
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You Know What's So Crazy About God?
He uses you as a pawn as well as a rook and a bishop and a queen in the game of chess that you’re playing both as the person moving the pieces and as each piece itself.
Sometimes you die. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you just get captured for awhile until the next pawn can manage to make that treacherous journey across the board to draw you back out of the pit.
The situations...
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The Third Anniversary of My Freedom
Exactly three years ago today, I got fired from BCC.
On November 3rd, 2008, I walked into my office, got my coffee as usual, and turned on my computer.
It was Monday morning, the Monday after Halloween, so everyone was in a pretty good mood, ready to tell funny stories from the parties they went to. Who had the best costume, who got the most drunk, who looked like a total idiot, all that fun...