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Creating Dissonance: December 2010
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View my complete profile. Tuesday, December 28, 2010. It’s nine hours home from Wilmore. It’s not a quick kind of ride. I have the original Nano that cannot store the entirety of my music library, which in all honesty is not that extensive. I rarely update it anyway and end up listening to the same old stuff; however, this trip home led me to explore some high school era fads, namely Five Iron Frenzy. Ahhh, my ska days…another desperate attempt for me to be both cool and Christian. I found myself crying ...
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Creating Dissonance: November 2010
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View my complete profile. Monday, November 29, 2010. I was talking with someone the other day about training I was attending the following day for Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). I told her that hers was an ignorant perspective. Now I could go off for quite some time about this perspective because I face it quite often. By experience, I have met too many parents who were really bad at parenting to believe that it is a magical and inherent trait that comes naturally through childbirth. My intenti...
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Creating Dissonance: August 2012
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View my complete profile. Tuesday, August 28, 2012. To Live is Christ. I see pain daily. Suffering is the defining theme of the woven narratives that I sit and encounter. Children that have been raped, neglected, and abused; women who have been taught that they have no value or worth; men who are stuck in cycles of shame and anger—this is the brokenness that I endure throughout each day. I am a man who loves fun and humor; however, this calling is not one for the faint hearted. The truth is simple. I do ...
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Creating Dissonance: September 2010
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View my complete profile. Thursday, September 30, 2010. Choosing schools, for me, was more akin to drawing lottery numbers than a real and intentional search or decision. I was going to go to New Orleans Theological Seminary when Katrina changed my plans for me. Undergrad was just the same. I went to Samford merely because I went to Samford. It was the only school I applied to for some reason. Neon sign hanging over every encounter they come across that depicts the direction they are to go. We follow the...
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Creating Dissonance: To Live is Christ...
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View my complete profile. Tuesday, August 28, 2012. To Live is Christ. I see pain daily. Suffering is the defining theme of the woven narratives that I sit and encounter. Children that have been raped, neglected, and abused; women who have been taught that they have no value or worth; men who are stuck in cycles of shame and anger—this is the brokenness that I endure throughout each day. I am a man who loves fun and humor; however, this calling is not one for the faint hearted. The truth is simple. I do ...
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Creating Dissonance: October 2012
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View my complete profile. Tuesday, October 16, 2012. My friend gave me a rather silly nickname of “Peter Cotton Nips.”. The aforementioned portion of this affectionate title comes from a pair of bedroom slippers that I wear that my friend calls my “bunnies” due to the strangely placed lining on the exterior heel that serves no purpose but to aesthetically appear as a rabbits tail. Strange, I know. The latter comes from an experience I had related to my friend recently. Why would he continue with no actua...
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Creating Dissonance: August 2010
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View my complete profile. Saturday, August 21, 2010. I have been at my new job for a little over two weeks. It was an incredible blessing to have the job prior to finishing my degree or acquiring my associate’s license. It seems that I either made an impression on the staff at my summer practicum or I have them fooled as to my competence. It made me feel good that my passion for helping children did not go unnoticed; however, I’ve been plagued as to whether or not I can do the job. Its fear that when the...
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Creating Dissonance: Forgetfulness
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View my complete profile. Sunday, September 11, 2011. My grandfather does not remember me. It is a hard thing to reflect on the moments I have shared with him and realize that while I hold onto those experiences he cannot because of his dementia. To visit is difficult because much of what made my grandfather my grandfather is through our shared experiences. It is how I have known him. He looks at me now with a bit of vacancy. However, it feels like a loss. Memories enable our learning. The long fingers o...
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[something intriguing]: April 2010
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Friday, April 9, 2010. My new love of different shopping. I've always hated shopping. Always. My skin crawls still at the thought of going to a mall. Ugh. But I've been converted. :) Ok, before you write me off as shallow or materialistic, click here and read this article. I was going to try to write myself about how/where I shop and why I do it, but she did a better job anyway. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). My new love of different shopping. Josh - the friend. Josh - the other friend.
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[something intriguing]: worth sharing, even on a mostly-latent blog
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Friday, January 29, 2010. Worth sharing, even on a mostly-latent blog. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Worth sharing, even on a mostly-latent blog. Josh - the friend. Josh - the other friend.
