Tuesday, February 17, 2009


and he has made the unseen visible
shadows brough to light
depth brought to shore
like deep ocean waves at night
of childhood lore
he has made the unseen visible

Thursday, February 12, 2009

It's been awhile...


It has been a while, a new year has been ushered in and still I walk along this path of healing that little guy within me.
I use to think that faith would provide me the euphoria of running, and I have since learned that faith and even marriage is morr like training for a marathon.
You are in it for the long haul so pace yourself, use a steady gate. Your body still may scream and say-what are you doing with me? But in your heart you must resolve not to walk away, to keep the pace, and to make gains-not matter how inscrutiating they may be, one step at a time.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Male Survivor Videos


Male Anorexia


Eating disorders aren't just for girls. I knew alot of guys in college who were obsessed with working out and watching what they ate. Check out the video.

Friday, May 23, 2008

Mother Teresa


Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
Mother Teresa

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
Mother Teresa

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Mother Teresa

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Teresa

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
Mother Teresa

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
Mother Teresa

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
Mother Teresa

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
Mother Teresa

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Mother Teresa

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
Mother Teresa

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother Teresa

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
Mother Teresa

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Mother Teresa

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
Mother Teresa

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
Mother Teresa

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
Mother Teresa

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Mother Teresa

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
Mother Teresa

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
Mother Teresa

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
Mother Teresa

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Mother Teresa

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother Teresa

Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Last One



Remember when you were a little kid and they would line you up alongside the rusted chain link fence. Each captain would pick someone to be on their team. Each time you were hoping that you wouldn't be the last kid picked. Remember that little knot in your stomach as your friend would scan the scraggly line, hoping inside "please pick me, please pick me." There something about being the last kid picked. Perhaps its shame. Perhaps its humiliation. Perhaps its the feeling that no one really wants me on their team, or that no one really wants me at all.No one likes being the last kid chosen to play on team.

David was the last one. No one really thought he would be the material to be a king. Even though David had his share of problems ( more of that to come later), God still chose the last one as his first choice.


The last ones. That is who God chooses to lead his kingdom- that is who he chose then, and that is who he chooses now.