a list for warm months

I’m about to begin the first book on this reading list, while finishing up the 8 or so other books I seem to have found myself in at once.  The goal for this summer is to concentrate on one at a time. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Don’t Sleep, [...]

but wait…

Hey-oh, there’s a happy ending to the shirt story!  I found the exact same fabric on ebay, bought it for $10, and am going to make it myself.  Now I can also afford that dentist appointment and new contacts and maybe even some glasses that fit my face and don’t tilt rakishly higher on one [...]

“I celebrate a theology of amazing grace, but I often react in ungrace. And if I rest in God’s control, why do I seek it for myself? Even in moments when I think I am prepared, I end up doing what I didn’t want to do.” -Paul David Tripp

For all of that talk, I can’t bring myself to do it.  My thrifty parents have rubbed off on me far too much, it seems.  I’m going to be responsible and buy some new boxes of contacts.

on value

Last night I found myself in the position of trying to justify to some friends my desire to save up for a $150 shirt.  Now, that seems like an exorbitant amount of money to pay for something that will cover a fraction of my body just as well as a $3 t-shirt from the Target [...]