Author: davidsdailydose
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The Delightful Danger of Distraction
When I was a boy, I spent two weeks every summer on my grandparents southwest Oklahoma farm. It was 160 acres of cotton fields, mesquite trees and sand. There was also a large garden, a tree house and a coop full of chickens. A favorite night time activity of my cousins and mine was to…
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The New Status Quo -2.0
One of my favorite blogs is Beauty Beyond Bones, where an effervescent woman named Caralyn tells about her struggle with anorexia and the journey to wholeness. But she writes about so much more! BBB is actually a view through the eyes of a Christian Millennial living in NYC. Around two weeks ago, Caralyn posted about…
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Publication Schedule and Plans
After two years of writing this blog, a definite pattern has emerged. I post often in the summer, but slow to a stop once school starts. Once stopped, I don’t resume until the NEXT summer. My plan going forward is to post every Saturday at 6 pm. To keep this going, I am writing and…
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Let Me See Your Tongue
As water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man. Proverbs 27:19 My mother grew up on a 160 acre cotton farm in the sandy hills of southwest Oklahoma. The nearest town, of any size, was 15 miles away. Such isolation made self-reliance a given. Because the farm was a ‘far piece’ from…
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Is the Sky Really Falling?
In the early 1990’s, social psychologist Roy Baumeister began exploring the negativity bias–the widely accepted belief that bad has a stronger impact on people than good. His team conducted extensive research, hoping to find situations where a single positive circumstance was actually stronger than a negative one. They couldn’t find any. In fact, Baumeister and…
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God Doesn’t Make Junk
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10 Many people considered famous today were once oddballs who refused to do their art the established way. The painter Jackson Pollock laid a humongous canvas on the floor of his barn…
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