Dream (Lent #35)

Dream house. Dream job. Dream vacation. Dream marriage. Dream car. Dream life. Who sells us these dreams? Who tells us what to dream? Who kill our dreams? Who makes our dreams come true? Could it be our dreams fall short of the greatness waiting for us? Could it be that our dreams are shortsighted, too […]

New (Lent #33)

“New and improved!” It’s a promise I’ve heard probably a hundred times (or more) in my lifetime. One product or another trying to convince me the product they loved the day before is now even better. There’s more of it. It harder. It’s softer. It lasts longer. It’s tougher. The formula now does twice as much in […]

Surround (Lent #32)

Surround…to embrace, to enfold, to engulf. I was surrounded in Russia (sorry, this is another “I was surprised by love” post). By surrounded I mean embraced by child after child in the orphanage we visited. One child in particular I found to be extraordinarily gifted at surrounding me. And I liked it. I liked him snuggling […]