Entries Tagged as 'Life'

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

This morning, I am thankful for Grace.

Friday, February 5th, 2010

On stress, work and the such.

In the midst of the crazi­ness of I’m real­iz­ing that I need bet­ter bound­aries. Do I really want to be that dad that doesn’t know his kids because he’s pulling late hours at the office?
At the same time, it’s kind of fun stay­ing late with cowork­ers, shar­ing in the pain! Ah, yes, it’s every single […]

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Whoa, there

Life is pretty nuts right now. But God’s still good, and with that I’m at peace.

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

Rest in peace, Godfather

Justin hands me a photo a few weeks ago. Can you get this blown up? Mike wants it.
I go see Mike. What do you want it to say?
He thinks.
“Rest in peace, God­fa­ther. From your brother, Spicy Mike.”

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

A Brother Like Me

Sun­day, I get a call from Mike. “Hey Drew, lis­ten I gotta talk to you man,” he starts. But this time, his voice is dif­fer­ent: wea­rier, on eggshells. “I’m at Alta Bates right now. My brother Wayne’s in the hos­pi­tal. He’s on his way out.”
“Oh, my God. What hap­pened?”
“He’s got an infec­tion, and it’s been bad Drew, […]

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

I will soon awaken.

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Thoughts after missing the 2nd Caltrain this evening.

It’s a strange life, this is. I’m stand­ing at the Cal­train sta­tion, watch­ing the 195 leave me behind in the dust, watch­ing a long, slow whis­tle escape from the engine train and sur­round me with its delight­ful irony. Tonight I’ll get home an hour later, maybe by 1AM if I’m lucky.
I wob­ble off my bike, sweaty […]

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Don’t waste your suffering

I’ve been think­ing a lot about how hard life is.
It’s been a rough month for every­one. Folks suf­fer­ing through can­cer, lay­offs, rela­tion­ship losses, and pass­ings in the fam­ily. Sto­ries of con­fu­sion, back­stab­bing, heart­break, and con­fu­sion are bub­bling up right and left. What do we do in this despair?
The wife of my old pas­tor was recently diagnosed […]

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Incompetence and me

So I’m cut­ting my hair on Sunday–no big deal, right? I’ve been cut­ting my hair for the past eleven years (one mir­ror, one trim­mer and nerves of steel) to vary­ing degrees of suc­cess. Well… my stan­dard of suc­cess means that after my hair­cut, I should a) still be rec­og­niz­able as me and b) not elicit […]

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Today’s dehydrated thoughts

I was out today on a long run (I’m pick­ing up train­ing for the SF Half Marathon in late July). But it was hot… the ther­mo­stat was read­ing 90 degrees at 10 in the morn­ing.
It was a really bad idea.
But I think I finally real­ized what Psalm 63 means:
God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you;
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