I hope you’re enjoying this series on initiation. If you have, leave a comment. If you’ve missed some blogs, you can check them out here: Part 1: Life Is Hard Part 2: You Are Not That Important Part 3: Your Life Is Not About You Our entire lives are spent subordinate to someone: it could […]
Fun Friday, 10 June
Photo credit: From Up North Fun Site of the Week This one is great and deserving a bookmark in your “just chilling” bookmark folder. This one will make your eyes cross but you won’t be able to stop. Okay, maybe you will. Video of the Week And this one may not be everyone’s style, but […]
Who’s Got the Keys?
I was running across our little village, keys in hand. For some reason, the spares were no where to be found so I was running with the keys and the thought crossed my mind: “Why does it always come to me to save the day?” but then almost immediately I thought to myself: Am I […]
Your Life Is Not About You. Initiation, part 3
This is part 3 in my series on initiation. If you are joining us late, please see part 1 and part 2 first… The next step in initiation, after putting boys through an experience that shows them Life is Hard and They are not that Important, is to open their eyes to the world around […]
Fun Friday, 3 June
Hello everyone! I am going out of town this weekend to speak about initiation, passion, and missions (imagine that!) so I will get a chance to post this blog using my WordPress app for the iTouch. Hopefully this works! Site of the Week This takes a while to load, but it’s perfect for Fun Friday… […]
You Are Not That Important. Initation, Part 2.
This blog is part of my continuing series on initiation. Please check out part one, which gives an introduction and talks about how we have to show boys that Life Is Hard “All I know is that there IS a God, and I’m not him.” – Author Unknown God Doesn’t Owe You Anything I […]
Boys Need An Initiation: It Should Leave A Mark.
There’s something missing in many “guys” these days. An initiation. It’s a byproduct of a lot things: the failure or absence of fathers, and the false initiation of video games and high-school cliques to name a few. College doesn’t initiate, sports teams and fraternaties are a shadow of it, some gap years and mission trips […]
Fun Friday, 27 May
Video(s) of the Week Because falling over is just really funny. And as a bonus: This one is nuts. Site of the Week Need to waste some time on a Friday morning while you sip your coffee? Play some pinball Or, if you prefer, a fun link that looks like you are doing research on […]
Our Invisible Life (part 2)
This post is an update on this blog where I challenged myself (and readers) to have some real relationships. My goal was to fight back against invisibility–to have actual contact with people outside of the internet, Twitter, and Facebook. Well, so far, so good: Photo Credit: Liu Bolin Challenge #1: Write an email to a […]