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    Embrace Submission

    Submission and obedience are absolutely necessary to the spiritual life. What do you think?

    August 7, 2012June 8, 2014 by Nathan

    Starting to Sound like a Fortune Cookie

    My roommates used to say I was an old man in a young man’s body. The things that come out of my mouth may not have the same weight as if I had a bit more gray hair or more wrinkles. Gravitas comes with age. I’m finding my own voice…

    July 5, 2012April 2, 2013 by Nathan

    Nature is the First Scripture

    In our men’s work we hear often that the Nature is the first Scripture and the Bible is the second. If we can’t be in right relation with the first, we will never be in right relation with the second. I tend to agree.

    July 2, 2012June 8, 2014 by Nathan

    On burned out days, shop… and smoke

    “I thought of all those times had had to ask for help, and had plugged away without enough resources, without knowing how, or whether, we were going to manage. And it had taken much more letting go and trusting than we had felt capable of.”

    June 29, 2012June 30, 2012 by Nathan

    Accidents

    Accidents have this way of orienting (or re-orienting) our perspective in such significant ways. I had a bit of an accident yesterday… though, I suppose for someone…… Read more “Accidents”

    June 28, 2012April 2, 2013 by Nathan

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