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Life Changes From Zero to One Hundred, Real Quick

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Progress is rarely linear. I see it in my own life where I spent three years discerning priesthood and then tried to drop back into my "normal" life from before I went to seminary. With a long enough view, you can see the trend upwards, but in the moment, it seems like a series of quick starts and sudden stops.

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Relief Begins Before It Is Over

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Looking back, I think about all the people who kept telling me, "Yeah, but it will be worth it when you have it." I mean EVERYONE told me that. I think that is a perspective that comes from people who are already on the other side of massive projects like that, because I couldn't see it.

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What Is So Good About Good Friday Anyway?

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There are a lot of great things about teaching a high school theology class, but one of my favorites is being able to hijack lessons with whatever I feel like talking about on a given day. During our last classes of Holy Week, since we don't have class on Good Friday, I decided we needed to take an hour and a half to reflect on what exactly we mean by calling Good Friday good.

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Content…But I’m Not Happy About It

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I usually come up with stories on the long drive and the ocean has historically fed my creativity. I was excited for this trip. I wanted to get back on the horse. I was somewhere in the middle of nowhere Arizona when it hit me.... I'm content. That made me so angry.

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Keep Shooting Until You Remember How

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I think we have all had those moments where we know that if we just started, we would enjoy it. Overcoming that initial hurtle though, is a major source of frustration. This is where my analogy comes in. I compared it to basketball.

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