Tag: salt

• This ain’t the time to turn back now.

  

  One time, I found myself driving around Chicago on a mission not my own. As I drove into the city, I found myself both happy and heavy—excited to be back in a place where I felt most comfortable and happy as an adult, yet heavier and sadder as I passed landmarks that I’d not seen…

  Great Joy

  January 8, 2023

  Let’s Be Real

  a life in holiness, a real time change, Christianity, encouragement, honest Christianity, Jesus Christ, keep going, press forward, press toward the mark, remember Lot’s wife, salt, Womanhood, you can do it

• The Parable of the Fried Rice (or, Happy 314 Day!)

  

  Confession: I had never had fried rice until I moved to Saint Louis. Mississippi folks are decidedly leery of “foreign food”—which is basically anything Big Mama didn’t cook! Now that I have been here (on and off) for the better part of 2 decades, I smash Beef Fried Rice with a Vess every two weeks…

  Great Joy

  March 14, 2022

  Exhortation, These are my Confessions

  Chinese American fried rice, culture, fried rice, happy 314 day, happy St. Louis Day, Jesus Christ, salt, the light of the world

• Remember Lot’s Wife

  

  This ain’t the time to turn back now. One time, I found myself driving around Chicago on a mission not my own. As I drove into the city, I found myself both happy and heavy—excited to be back in a place where I felt most comfortable and happy as an adult, yet heavier and sadder…

  Great Joy

  January 14, 2021

  Exhortation, Let’s Be Real

  a life in holiness, a real time change, Christianity, encouragement, honest Christianity, Jesus Christ, keep going, press forward, press toward the mark, remember Lot’s wife, salt, Womanhood, you can do it