Having surgery was a strange season in my life.  I feel like sometimes it was a waste of time.  I still struggle walking and I hate it. I thought it was going to be so much better when I recovered from the surgery.  It’s not.  It stinks. I also have debt. For the first time in maybe 10 years I owe others money. A looming bill riding over me every month was not part of the plan. I also found out that insurance companies stink. It feels like they look to their own interests instead of mine. But...

I just recently went on vacation.  And with vacation comes some additional splurges.  My wife and I have been on a health journey for the last couple of years and this has required a certain diet that we go by when we eat. It’s nothing restrictive in the sense that we can’t eat certain foods, but it is restrictive on the amount of food we can intake in a week.   I’m on a calorie deficit.  I allow myself to only eat a certain amount of calories a week so that I can lose fat.  God has opened my...

I love reading.  I’ve been going through a book from the Stormlight Archive (which I’ve probably mentioned before) and it has brought some good insight to me.  In one scene a herald imparts on others his “burden”.  It is to carry the darkness and the sufferings of others.  But he wields this power in an evil way.  He claims to do good but his actions are evil. At one point during this impartation of the burden, one of the characters (he has dealt with this darkness or depression) is able to...