Posts Tagged "Faith"
Coffee Stained Salvation
Coffee Stained Salvation by Parke Ladd From three years of caffeinated mornings spent on the run–chased by time, a lingering boss and bills still unpaid–dark, circular stains from overflowing clay coffee cups placed atop the metal, blue roof of his 4-door sedan, wipe away in the wind as he drives this morning to work. He cracks his window open to the kind of temperature and...
Read MoreThe World Sings A Lullaby
Clenching fingers ’round thinning neck, diminishing circulation to brain, slowing inhale and exhalations, bursting blood vessels in bulging eyes, the world covertly entices and persuades us into a lethargic state of obedience while seamlessly fading into a background of gray nothingness. The world doesn’t want to kill us but to put us to sleep. Like heroine thirsty for a ripe, blue vein,...
Read MoreWhen Love Isn’t Enough
Our love either is or is not enough depending on who our love points to and guides others toward. There are a few options Our love can point those receiving it back toward their own selves. Our love can point those receiving it toward us. Our love can point those receiving it toward Love. In regards to the first two options, our love is not enough. Options 1 & 2 will always, eventually...
Read MoreGooglized Wisdom & Flickering Pixels
Thoughts On Communication From Flickering Pixels Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith by Shane Hipps makes a compelling case for stepping back and taking a thorough look at the mediums we use to communicate and how those mediums shape our messages, lives, and beliefs. Pixels is based off of Marshall McLuhan’s research regarding mediums of communication, and, in particular,...
Read MoreSettling For Bread & Burnt Coffee
The Land of Java Procedural elimination and implementation, like an undefiled, virgin coffee drinker attempting interpretation of cafe lingo in order to decide upon something actually worth consuming within the confines of airy Americanos, frothy lattes, and tempting double shot, caramel macchiatos. Words here, words there–colorful, chalk hieroglyphics strewn about on an archaic yet serene...
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