Passion · Week 2 · Friday Every story this week has had a person in it. A brother. A colleague. A wife. A mother. Someone whose name you could say, who did a thing, who could in principle be forgiven….
It Does Not Stay Put
It Was Still Wrong
Passion · Week 2 · Thursday She is forty-three, and something happened in her house when she was a girl, and her mother has never really talked about it. Not denied. That would almost be easier — denial is at…
Before The Sun Goes Down
Passion · Week 2 · Wednesday Eleven years married. It’s nine at night, the dishwasher is running, and his wife has just said something about him that was accurate and unkind at the same time. Both halves matter. If it…
Not Everything Needs A Verdict
Passion · Week 2 · Tuesday She’s thirty-four and four months into a new team, still at the stage where she reads the room more carefully than she’d like to admit. On Thursday a colleague walked the leadership group through…
The Speech He Has Perfected
Passion · Week 2 · Monday He is fifty-eight, and nine years ago his younger brother handled the sale of their father’s business in a way he considered a betrayal. He has an account of it. Everyone who knows him…
SOMETHING IS BURNING WELL
Passion · Week 2 · Sunday Something Is Burning Well There was a stretch two springs ago when I got more done in six weeks than I had all year. Up before anyone else. Inbox clear by seven. Decisions I’d…
Passion
Passion · Week 1 · Saturday Recap Passion I spent this whole week reading about passion and thinking about the fact that my sons can tell. The Week in Review We started on Sunday with the six-week fire, the one…
Come Out of Hiding
Passion · Week 1 · Thursday Come Out of Hiding He stopped praying the same week he did the thing he still cannot say out loud. He is twenty, first year out of the house, and he did not decide…
Cooled by Degrees
Passion · Week 1 · Wednesday Cooled by Degrees Nobody in that house ever decided to stop praying. It simply stopped happening. There was no argument about it. No crisis of faith, no offense at the church, nobody storming out…
The Love You Had at First
Passion · Week 1 · Tuesday The Love You Had at First He was doing everything right, and his wife told him she missed him anyway. Ten years in. He provided, and provided well. He was faithful, and had never…