This has been a fun experiment.  I've always lacked commitment with these things.  Maybe I'll pick it back up?

Hey everyone, thanks for visiting the blog.  Just wanted to apologize for the lack of posts as of late.

The good news.  I recently received a promotion!  
The bad news.  Wow it has taken a huge effort!

Anyways folks, I am back and hope to have some posts up soon.  In the meantime, check out another guest post I wrote for the Christian Web Trends blog HERE.

See you soon.

Waiting followed by last minute panic, that about sums up my life.  But what to do in the waiting?  Jimmy Fallon clips and iPhone games are my usual go-to activities, but leave me feeling like I have wasted time.

I have an innate distrust of all things easy, so I always veer far away from anything I could get in "10 minutes or less."  This is especially true when it comes to anything spiritual.  How can it be valuable if it only costs me 1, 5, or 10 minutes?  It seems cheap and insincere, plus it usually takes me at least 10 minutes to get focused in the first place.

In the last few months I have had a change of heart, as you might have guessed by the title on the front page.  I still think that long periods of prayer, reading, and meditation are necessary for a healthy spiritual life, but I have found a place for the perfunctory, and it is in our breaks...

1.  You are worth more than your bank account

For the majority of my 20’s I wandered from job to job spending time in other countries with internships or volunteer positions.  As long as I had enough money for orange juice, cereal, and pasta I was happy.  Then a few years ago I met a girl.  Let me assure you she is in not a ‘high maintenance girl’ (whatever that means) nor did she demand I have a high paying job.  In fact, we began dating when I was working part time as a delivery driver and part time as a security guard.  Despite how caring and supportive she was, I could not shake the feeling I needed to be making more.  In my own personal struggle to learn what it means to be a boyfriend and eventually a husband, my paycheck became a big issue...