Author christopher

Life this year has been, hmm. Difficult. Freeing. Uncomfortable. Progressive. Challenging. Growth-filled. Interesting is a good word to describe it 🙂 I started out this year hopeful for a positive year. After everything that happened last year, I broke in… Continue Reading →

One of my friends and I were recently talking about the idea of God’s Grace.  I’ve been doing some thinking about that the past several days, because it seems to be a common current in my life (well, it is… Continue Reading →

This came out of a conversation with a friend this morning.Sometimes it’s funny to me how excited I get about rolling down a big hill, seeing the leaves flutter off of the trees, laughing at a fat little squirrel with… Continue Reading →

Today has been one of those days.  Sometimes I get into a sort of funk where things are going well, but they just don’t seem quite right.  Kinda like when you are making dinner and it tastes good, but you… Continue Reading →

For some reason, the last several days I’ve been waking up at 5 in the morning, which is about an hour and a half earlier than I need to.  I’ve been taking advantage of this extra time, and a couple… Continue Reading →

Last night after church, one of my friends and I hung around for a while talking.  At one point, the topic of Biblical Christianity versus modern-day mainstream American Christianity came up, and during the course of that conversation, I was… Continue Reading →

My story starts out the way that many from small rural midwestern towns do.  I grew up in the small Baptist church in the town near where I lived, “prayed the prayer” when I was five or six, and was… Continue Reading →

Lately it’s been absolutely gorgeous outside, so at lunch, I’ve been going for hikes in the park near my office to get out and enjoy it.  Yesterday as I was hiking, I stumbled across what is probably the biggest acorn… Continue Reading →

Yesterday I decided to take a road trip to Turkey Run over in Indiana to do some hiking.  It’s been over a year since I’d been there, and I wanted to spend some time relaxing and reflecting out in the… Continue Reading →

One of my friends recently told me a story about an experience he had while driving through a construction zone on the interstate at night.  For most of the trip, everything went fine.  At one point though, as he was… Continue Reading →