When I was a junior in high school, I had the opportunity to speak in our upper school chapel. For some reason, I chose to pursue this opportunity (Good thing I was athletic. Because of that, I was able to maintain some social clout after – as you will soon see — I gave a […]
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The Choking Vines and My Greatest Fear
“Remarkably, the most common regret of the dying was this: they wish they’d had the courage to live a life true to themselves and not the life others expected of them… “I wondered how many opinions I’ve wanted to share but held back for fear of criticism; what love I’ve wanted to express but stayed […]
The Graveyard Cup — A Maundy Thursday Reflection
Two years after Hurricane Katrina, the youth group I interned for took their middle school students to New Orleans to gut houses destroyed by the storm. We pretty much told the kids to do as much damage as they could on them. We gave sledge hammers to twelve year old boys in order to tear down […]
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