🌐 A Birthday (and Holiday) Lamentation
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January 09, 2026
Living & Loving in the Tension of Faith
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Today is my Birthday…Happy Birthday to me? I don’t feel very happy. It feels more like a time for lamentation than joy.
I had a very different essay planned for this week but this subject is really top of mind for me. I know this isn’t the type of essay most people want to read, especially this time of year. Most, articles in mid-December are about joy. Some profound…most far from it. But, writing can be a catharsis.
It has been a hard few years. In 2015, I wrote a little about my desert experience in a post titled, “The Wilderness: Wandering in Life’s Desert.” To be honest, things have only gotten worse....
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