Our relationship to God is certainly not like a magic genie, where we get to ask him for whatever we want, whenever we want. I can’t find the evidence where he affords or allows us three big requests, and is obligated to answer/perform. It doesn’t work like that. And yet, prayer, and our attached petitions, […]

This past May, my mom, my brothers, and I took a trip to England. It was a pilgrimage of sorts. We surprised our mom last Christmas with a plane ticket and a special trip planned with her three sons (Paul’s idea). We wanted to take her to see the place where her mom was born,

(This pondering originally appeared over at Saint Creative Dot Com). Perhaps one of the greatest compliments one can receive is “You’re different.” We often perceive being different as a negative thing, but I’d rather be different than the same any day. One of my favorite advertising campaigns was Apple’s “Think Different” campaign, that ran from

In my 20s, I wanted to greatness. Spiritual greatness! I wanted to be great. It consumed me, even if I didn’t know exactly what greatness meant, or what it was going to look like for me. What did God have in store for my life? Was I going to be a success or a failure?