Daily Choices. Spirit Over Flesh. Proverbs 24:16
Go Back In · Week 1 · Friday The disagreement was about nothing. That is precisely what makes it impossible to fix. Two neighbors, a volunteer committee, a decision that went one way instead of the other, and eight or…
Go Back In · Week 1 · Thursday He is counting days again. This morning he is at nineteen. Nobody else knows the number, and that is the entire function of the number. It is his. It is private. It…
Go Back In · Week 1 · Wednesday The error was his. Not the team’s. Not the vendor’s. Not a process gap somebody should have caught upstream, which is where he looked first and hardest, for about six hours, before…
Go Back In · Week 1 · Tuesday He missed it. The one his son had been counting down to for six weeks, marking off on the calendar in the kitchen where everybody could see it. There was a real…
Go Back In · Week 1 · Monday She lost the money in March. It is August. It was not a catastrophe. It was worse than that, in the particular way these things are worse — it was avoidable. A…
Go Back In · Week 1 · Sunday There is a law in Leviticus that most people have never read, and it explains the loneliest verse in the first chapter of Mark. If you had a skin disease in Israel,…
Passion · Week 2 · Saturday On Sunday I asked you to find the grievance you’d defend hardest. I found mine in about two seconds, which was its own answer. I’m not going to tell you what it is. Not…
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….
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…
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…