Over the past 5 days I have been warned to "stay in my lane" and "stick to decluttering". I've been reminded (not so nicely) that no one cares about my political views. I have received a handful of 1-star reviews on Apple Podcasts which threaten to tank my show. I have also lost hundreds of email subscribers.
Still, I must ask: What's the point in having a platform if you don't/won't use it when it matters?
A Christmas gift from my wife.
Being in the Now, the present moment… it is one of the ultimate contemplative clichés, and therefore potentially deeply annoying.
And yet, like pretty much all clichés, it points to something urgent.
Right now is the only time it ever is. The past and the present are just thoughts in your mind.
At age 3, I ‘accepted’ Jesus into my heart.
At age 12, my mom still hadn’t told me what my period was. She never would.
At age 13, my mom wouldn’t tell me anything about ‘sex’. And, she never did. I found out what fucking was through the encyclopedia.
At age 14, we stopped ‘home-churching’ and went to a ‘real church’. This was both exciting and humiliating. I hated being the homeschooling weirdo who had to wear modest clothes while everyone else was sooooo much cooler than me.
At age 15, I was …