If I push myself hard enough, plan well enough, suppress my emotions enough, I can master my life. I can steer this ship that is racing through an ocean of unexpected obstacles and unpredictable storms and uncharted territory because I am my own captain: me, me, me.
Category Archives: Daily Habit
Day One: Ash Wednesday
The reality is, I very well might not have these curls forever. Actually, I certainly will not.
Q & A
I must remind myself that within any structure of time, we are, in fact, always asking questions and always receiving answers…whether we know it or not. Or even yet, whether we know how to or not.
Love and Baseball
Spending the last month laughing and screaming and jumping up and down after every major play with my friends and family was more than a thrill…it was a holy form of healing.
Day Twelve: It’s about the Twirling
Dreams are wonderful, but they do not have come true in our timing to keep hope alive.
God is almighty but is not so distant that we should worry with uncertainty about God’s love for us.
Day Nine: It’s just fish.
…Wait a minute, am I supposed to love everyone?! But surely, I do not have the emotional capacity for that, right?!
Death & Life
In Luke 9:62, Jesus literally says, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.” How the heck have I not already transformed into a pillar of salt?
A New Page
When we get caught up in our historic accomplishments and transgressions, the slippery slope of self-righteousness opens a clear pathway to destruction.
The Laws of the Universe
Newton’s Third Law of Motion is quite simple: that for every action, there is an equal, but opposite, reaction. I can either choose to be on time (action) by striking down a slothful habit (reaction), or I can choose to be irresponsible (action) and force myself and everyone with whom I interact to feel the reverberations of my selfishness (reaction).
Nothing But Joy
Spiraling down a path of self-shame, I inevitably ask myself the ever-infuriating question: “Why do I actively choose the wrong decision when I know what is right?”
Rachel Fisher 