You’ve been praying for this for weeks. You asked for a direction, a sign, anything at all. And all you get back is quiet. When do you find yourself wondering if God is silent or if He just stopped listening…
Have you ever watched someone walk into a room full of strangers and leave an hour later with three new friends, quietly wondering what they have that you don’t? It may surprise you, but the answer often lies in habits…
They never seem crazy, but somehow it all works out. Often early, while everyone around is bustling. What’s amazing is how inefficient their habits look up close. There is no named performance system. No five in the morning routine they…
It’s easy to read this as antisocial or boring. This is usually not the case. While everyone else is making plans for the bar, the party is already envisioning the couch, the good lamp, the food they’re going to slowly…
Some people seem to run on a slightly different clock than everyone around them. They are calm when others are going crazy. They ask a question no one else has thought to ask. You leave the conversation with them feeling…
Most parents don’t lose touch with their grown children in one big bang. It happens in small steps, due to habits, so that usually no one notices them. The hard part is that these habits often come from love. The…
They stop being fit. The constant small effort to manage the way they come across is just off and you can feel it when you’re around them. It’s not quite a certainty. It’s more like a list of things they’re…
You’re sitting in the waiting room to go to your first big job interview or give the presentation you’ve been working on for weeks. Maybe your foot starts tapping faster and faster, or you start twirling your hair. Why does…
Some things are not banned or replaced. They just disappear, so slowly that no one marks the day they stopped happening. The 70s had a whole set of small, mundane pleasures that quietly slipped away. Not a big cultural thing.…
In many families, the parents are exhausted and missing what is in front of them, while the grandparents sitting in the corner read to the child like an open book. It’s not that the grandparents love the child more. The…
