Thoughts from the Thinking

I got a pair of jacks with an ace in the whole but there are 2 more cards left to flip and the dealer isn’t calling yet.

One of the biggest problems with most things such as blogs, television, school, church, youth ministry…well, pretty much everything, is that often before content can be made people want numbers but those numbers don’t come without there first being content. Think about it: It is really hard to write up something unless you know people [...]

In high school I got involved with the youth ministry program at my parish Holy Trinity. Within the first year I met some very important people in my spiritual, emotional, and social growth. However, looking back, I know now that I got involved for the wrong reason and it ended up hurting me. The biggest [...]

OK, here is the situation*: You are infatuated with someone you see almost everyday but you aren’t sure how they feel about you. There are times when things seem to be heading towards becoming more personal (ie, s/he feels the same way about you as you do about them) but there are also times when [...]

I was recently out at the Lake of the Ozarks with family and through my (not really) near drowning experience, I came to an interesting conclusion about myself in respect to swimming but it applies pretty well to my whole life. I like the feeling of being able to touch bottom with my head above [...]

James, son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, whom he named Boanerges, that is, sons of thunder;

Like dropping addictions, letting go of someone with whom one have emotional attachment incurs withdrawal and a great amount of pain. In the end, however, it has great benefits and serves as an experience of growth if done well and “in time.”

“Cheer up baby it wasn’t always quite so bad. For every venom that came out the antidote was had”-Spitting Venom by Modest Mouse Everything we go through has the potential to kill us or be productive. It is the way we live. When things get bad you can choose to quit. But you also have [...]

Sometimes, OK, a lot of the time, I wish I could go back to be being a kid again. Honestly, there is nothing wrong with being a “Toys R Us Kid” and sometimes it looks really tempting. I often feel nostalgic of the 90′s and my days in grade school where days were long and playing football in the street with the neighbors was the local past time. I had some good times before high school; before puberty came and hit me in the face like a brick. This is not to say that those were the “best” days of my life but they were something outside of themselves; those days were days when I was different.

I will grow up and be there by myself. Waiting for the rest of them to catch up. I don’t know how long it will be, but I can’t imagine anyone will grow up fast enough for me to be around to see it. I feel very sad knowing I already out grew them. Even [...]