I love eavesdropping.

Is that bad?

It’s okay if it is; I’m just wondering.

For a good part of my life I have been interested in people and what makes them tick.  I consider myself a student of people and their actions and behaviors.  Recently though, I’ve come to understand that I use that information to put people in a box.  In trying to understand them, I’ve limited them and marginalized them; though it is only from my view.

Whereas this habit is likely to not harm another, it has harmed how I view others and of what I believe they are capable.

And it must stop.

We are not meant to fix America;

to make it comfortable for us.

Our comfort (or lack of) comes from God.

Our lives are to be spent loving people,

not building institutions.

Twice in recent weeks my wife has helped give me life in ways she didn’t know were contributing to me in that way.  She did this by being herself, completely, and nothing more or less.

I cannot stress to those of you who are still searching for a partner in life to never, ever settle.  Please have hope in the impossible and may you experience the joy in wild dreams coming to rest in your life.