What would I be like if I had done the thing I was afraid of for the past decade?
and, furthermore,
what if I started now?
and, furthermore,
what if I started now?
Friday, June 30, 2017
Saturday, January 23, 2016
Repost: Asking Questions
Roughly every other week this blog will feature a reposted work. I had been a contributor on two different sites that have since closed or no longer include blogs. I will be reposting pieces that had originally been featured on one of these two sites.
This was originally posted October 17, 2011
Many little wisps of ideas have passed through my mind since
I posted my last blog but none have settled.
I tend to notice things and make connections and then write as I reflect
on that. Frankly, I’ve been bewildered
lately. There are so many “things” to
notice.
Saturday, January 9, 2016
Promoting a Book, While Reflecting on Promoting a Book.
I contributed to a book again.
The last one was devotions for Advent, reflective readings
for the Christmas season to refocus the reader to remember that Christ came to
earth as a human baby.
The first book was uplifting in theme and overtly
worshipful.
This second book is a little different than that.
Saturday, November 28, 2015
Looking for ISAIAH in the Bible
My son is always very excited to get his hands on my Bible.
It’s not that we’ve instilled in him a thirst for the word
of God. He’s not seeking truth or relationship with God. We haven’t yet explained
to him that the ESV is THE hippest Bible to read. He’s not looking at the
colorful maps in the back or the red letters in the gospels or my notes and
scribbles throughout.
He’s looking for page 683, where it says, in big letters
“ISAIAH”.
Friday, October 9, 2015
Repost: The Dragon We Got
Every other week my blog will feature a reposted work. I had been a contributor on two different sites that have since closed or no longer include blogs. I will be reposting pieces that had originally been featured on one of these two sites.
This was originally posted October 06, 2011
About a year ago I wrote a reflection about trusting God in
the process of adopting our son, Isaiah, from India. I borrowed Donald Miller’s comparison of a
father to a Dragon which he made in his book To Own a Dragon and applied
it to a son. For me a son seemed just as
unattainable as a father was to Miller, as unattainable as a dragon. I borrowed from Ursula Le Guin’s mythology of
dragons found in her Earthsea Cycle to illustrate how special and magnificent my
son was. I concluded by affirming the
faithfulness of God in keeping his promise to deliver Isaiah to my wife and
me. I referred to God as The Giver of
Dragons.
Soon after that writing administrative pieces fell into
place and we flew to India to meet our Dragon.
A little under a year ago we brought home the dragon we got.
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Reminders of Relationship
We named our second son, Enoch Shant Arunav Begg.
Enoch was taken from Genesis 5:24
"Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took
him."
We want our son to walk with God. It also states that Jared
was the father of Enoch, so that’s a nice bonus.
Sunday, September 6, 2015
Repost: Oh The Cleverness of this Title!
Every other week my blog will feature a reposted work. I had been a contributor on two different sites that have since closed or no longer include blogs. I will be reposting pieces that had originally been featured on one of these two sites.
This was originally posted October 06, 2011
Peter Pan
The Peter Pan Complex (or Syndrome) is term some psychologists have used to describe a grown man who acts like a boy. A man with Peter Pan Syndrome refuses to grow up emotionally and psychologically just as Peter Pan refused to grow up... entirely.
I exhibit this a little, but I try to realize it and grow beyond it (pun intended).
My personal Peter Pan Syndrome is a little different than this.
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