Articles by Hannah

Very Few People Are Mature Enough for This

Let’s face it. Your needs aren’t as important as mine. Oh, sure, you think they are. But they’re not. So, stop trying to convince yourself and the entire world via your social media rants and tirades that they are. I literally don’t care. All you’re doing is triggering me and thus shutting me down. I’ve already snoozed you once for 30 days, and I’ll probably unfollow you when you reappear in my thread, carrying on with your same disagreeable shenanigans.

Oh but wait. Is that your goal? To stir up dissention, shut people down, and generate animosity? Or perhaps its more innocuous than that. Maybe you just want to speak your mind and seek validation from those who share your beliefs?… Read the rest

I Will Punch You In the Face

“Oh my GOSHHHHH, Mom! Couldn’t you have WAITED to stream church until I FINISHED WHAT I WAS DOING?! MY PHONE IS LAGGING!!!”

I choke back my coffee in shock at the over-the-top daggers of fury being hurled at me from my son’s room. I mean, I literally just poured myself a cup of coffee and sat down to enjoy cyber-church on this pleasant Sunday morning. How was I to know I was cutting into the precious bandwidth and disrupting my poor boy-child’s Pokemon-Go battle? On his iPhone. That we told him he wouldn’t get until he’s at least 14.

(He’s 11.)

He may not get it back until he’s 14.

“Can you pleeeease make french toast?” my girl-child pleads. Another one of her out-of-the-blue Varuca Salty-esque requests that requires at least some degree of planning and preparation.… Read the rest

Grief and Faith are Not Mutually Exclusive

Jesus wept. Remember?

And so did I, tonight. It caught me a little off-guard, as I’ve been hanging in there like a champ — my faith has been strong and I have been pressing in to the Lord for wisdom and the Shalom of heaven. I’ve been able to clearly see – what probably amounts to but a fraction of – the ways His hand is in the mix of this world crisis. I see the way we’re naturally resetting, as a society; the ways the all-important towers of security and affection we’ve erected are being dismantled, so that core values of family and simplicity are being restored.

The tower of professionalized youth sports – demolished.
The tower of idolatry for professional sports – squashed.

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