What I Learned from My “Mr. Magoo Years”

What I Learned from My “Mr. Magoo Years”

The most awkward transition in my life was moving from the nurtured and relatively carefree life of a student to contributing as an independent and productive adult.  Looking back, I fondly refer to that period as my “Mr. Magoo years.”  If you don’t remember Mr. Magoo, he was a hopelessly nearsighted character who cluelessly marched…

Being Comforted When Feeling Uncomfortable

Being Comforted When Feeling Uncomfortable

“Get comfortable being uncomfortable,” says the artwork hanging on my living room wall. The words sit within a tangle of orange squiggles. Whether or not the artist, Hugh McLeod, meant for the squiggles to represent the jumbled feelings that come when life takes a different direction, they do for me. Relocations have been those transitions….

Staying Faith

Staying Faith

Thomas stayed.  The other disciples saw Jesus. Experienced him. He was before them, in the flesh. But Thomas missed it. And as his friends recounted the story of seeing their Lord, Thomas couldn’t believe that Jesus had risen.  He had been with Jesus, watching the miraculous. But this was too much. Whether his grief from…