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Open Hands · Week 3 · Saturday · INSECURITY On Sunday I said that a man who builds on credentials has a particular problem waiting for him. Here is mine, in the words it actually uses. These people are paying…

Open Hands · Week 3 · Friday · INSECURITY There is a card taped to the inside front panel of her desk drawer. The corners have gone soft. She has had some version of it for most of her working…

Open Hands · Week 3 · Thursday · INSECURITY They asked him to lead it. He said no inside four seconds, and the reason he gave out loud was a conflict in his diary, which was not true. The real…

Open Hands · Week 3 · Wednesday · INSECURITY The report card came home on a Tuesday and she felt it in her stomach before she had finished the first line. Not worry for him. She knows what worry for…

Open Hands · Week 3 · Tuesday · INSECURITY He is nine weeks into his first job managing people, and he has not given a short answer in a meeting since he started. Somebody asks where a number came from….

Open Hands · Week 3 · Monday · INSECURITY She gives a post about ninety minutes. That is the window she has worked out, without ever writing it down: if it has not moved by then, it is not going…

Open Hands · Week 3 · Sunday · INSECURITY You need to know one thing about a winepress to feel this passage properly. A winepress is a pit, cut down into rock, with walls. You press grapes in it. You…

Open Hands · Week 2 · Saturday · ANXIETY This past Sunday, I told you I am a planner by temperament, and that Ecclesiastes 3 has always been a problem for me. I have been in seasons where the thing…

Open Hands · Week 2 · Friday · ANXIETY She has not taken a day off in about a year. Not a dramatic year. No crisis, no eighty-hour weeks, nothing anyone would write a story about. Just a year in…

Open Hands · Week 2 · Thursday · ANXIETY The baby was due in six weeks. The contractor had a slot in four. It made sense on paper, and paper is where most of these decisions get made. Do the…