I wrote about my own journey through deconstruction and leaving Church ministry last year. You can find that post here. Later on, I wrote a follow-up post titled “Faith Reconstructed“, where I tried to clear up some questions some of you had … Continue reading The Questioners’ Creed
The pursuit of happiness is one of the major foundations of America. We all are engaged in the search for what makes us happy. We spend our lives looking for it. But what if the very thing we work out entire lives to obtain could be the very thing that kills us? Continue reading Why Happiness Is Dangerous
It seems like there are more and more things in my life that remind me I’m getting older on a daily basis. I experience and view life very differently than I used to for sure, but I also notice an … Continue reading It’s Never Too Late To Change: Lessons I’ve Learned From My Twenties
Have you ever considered the things you believe to be true? Have you ever wondered what might actually be false? Would it devastate you to find out that something you believed your whole life isn’t true? Continue reading Feasting On Falsehoods: 3 Lies American Culture Feed Us
I decided to write on the heels of my last post where I talked about some ways we can approach our lives on a daily basis where we can feel “ok” with ourselves and the world around us, I also … Continue reading God Wants Me To Be Happy
Hey readers! Sorry for the late post this week! I’m still trying to get the hang of having a new post ready by Monday, so hang in there with me as I adjust. Today’s blog post is not so much … Continue reading Into The Wild Unknown
Have you ever been in a public place, maybe the grocery store, and seen someone you knew, and chose to look away quickly and walk in the opposite direction? I actually do this all the time. Maybe I’m weird, or an asshole. The latter is almost definitely true. But the thing is, I absolutely despise small talk. I don’t avoid people because I hate them. I just avoid the people I know I don’t have anything to talk about with them. Is that really so bad? I just really really hate conversations about nothing. Don’t get me wrong, I love … Continue reading The Agonizing Torture of Small Talk
This morning I found myself praying an unusually specific prayer. As I’ve been writing, almost religiously, about my life and my story, and how it seems aimless somedays, and direct others, there’s this one underlying constant that binds it all together: Hope. I admit the last few weeks I’ve had a hard time finding any hope in such bleak circumstances, but I know its there…somewhere. Hope is what some may call an illusion that our mind manifests to get us through situations in life that are beyond our control, or potentially too much for us to mentally and/or emotionally handle. I’d like to believe that hope … Continue reading The Red Lizard
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