Last week, I spent a week in San Diego leading a pilgrimage for two churches from Atlanta, GA. The organization I work for had never done a trip to this part of Southern California, so I arrived a day before the team and set off on exploring the area surrounding our hostel. As I exited […]
Month: June 2014
Story Part II — The Importance of Telling your Story (My Depression)
Part one of the story series examined the following aspects of story: it’s importance and the listener’s transformative role in the transaction between the storyteller and the listener. In part two, I want to discuss the importance of telling your story. Between the two main functions of stories – storyteller and listener – we tend […]
On Sorrow: the dandelion dances in the distance
Sorrow is not purely sadness or grief, or agony or despair. The feeling is akin to yearning, yet it is also hopeful — a loss breeding a desire for the joys of the past, yet it is expectant for the fruit of the future. It is the feeling of a child as he walks through a meadow and […]
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