The Patience You Thought You Had… There are few places better suited to revealing the true condition of your soul than a grocery store with one checkout lane open. You can spend the morning praying. Read Scripture. Listen to something profound. Feel unusually...
Envy Dessed Up As Ambition… Theodore Roosevelt gets credit for the line, though he probably borrowed it from somewhere older: “Comparison is the thief of joy.” Everyone’s heard it. Everyone nods along. And then everyone goes right back to...
The Bias Blindspot… You know that feeling when you’ve driven the same route to work for three years and someone asks, “Hey, what’s that building on the corner?” and you genuinely cannot picture it — even though you’ve passed it...
Drift You Didn’t Notice Until It’s Too Late… You’ve heard the story. Drop a frog in boiling water, it jumps out immediately — smart frog. But put that same frog in cool water and slowly turn up the heat, and it’ll sit there until...
When everything matters, nothing gets your best… There are few phrases more universally accepted than: “I just don’t have time.” We say it about exercise. Prayer. Calling our parents. Reading. Seeing friends. Getting enough sleep. Finally dealing with the box in...
