How To: Do marriage great.
The best way to do marriage is the following: 1. – Know how to say Yes. 2. – Have a uterus. And it is that easy. 123 marriage is easy.
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making babies.
I love babies. I love families. I love the idea and the practice of changing the world for the better. One of the cool things about families is, it’s a restart. Its new. It recreates culture and tradition and thinking. Families train us to think and feel and interact. And, as happens, we get trained […]
Read more "making babies."Babies shouldn’t tell us what to do.
Sometimes I read the story of Abraham and when he takes his only child up the hill to stab him, theres a sense of injustice that rises up inside me. ‘How can God ask him to do that? What is he a schitzo? Murder isn’t in Gods character… Hes telling him to do something non-countercultural… […]
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Do you ever feel like you’re a court jester in the throne room of God? Like He doesn’t really like you. He just has you jumping through hoops to laugh at you? And it’s not just Him. His ENTIRE KINGDOM comes to just watch you tumble and fall and hurt yourself. You just keep failing and failing, […]
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Sitting and watching two kids play Mario Kart. One was going completely the wrong way and constantly driving into the water. The other was in second last place, but at least he was going in the right direction. The race went for almost four times as long as it should have with no real chance of competing […]
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This morning I randomly opened one of my journals from two years ago. A journal i started on my journey to Canada, Seattle, singapore, home, melbourne and home again. I flipped to a page that described the train trip home to Newcastle after returning from Singapore. There were some cheeky kids sitting behind me who […]
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Yesterday I sat with some young people and asked my normal questions. “What do you like doing?” “What do you want to do with your life?” and I am responded to by the good old “WHAAAAT?” face. that face only a 15 year old could give you. As if to say “I have never been […]
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