Engaged but Not Alarmed

“How, then, should Christians engage the news? We should not look away as though the sufferings of others do not matter. But neither should we consume every crisis, dispute, and controversy as though it demands our immediate attention and emotional investment.”

What to Do When You Catastrophize

In this post, Alan Noble writes, “Things fall apart. Your life falls apart—potentially. The worst thing possible might happen. It’s possible. It’s technically possible. And that’s all you can think about. It pounds in your head. Your thoughts race. You try to calculate every possibility, every outcome, every bad outcome, to identify the danger so you can protect yourself and those you love. You prepare for the worst despite lack of evidence that the worst is going to happen because if it did happen then it would be too much to bear. In short, you catastrophize.”

The Joy of Baseball

Here, Dan Darling shares is love of America’s pastime, and notes, “Baseball has such memories for me. Sometimes my father, a plumbing contractor with his own business, would take me with him. If we were in the vicinity of Buffalo Grove, a suburb of Chicago where my grandfather, Grandpa Darling, lived, we’d stop over. He’d be in the enclosed front porch of his house, reading the newspaper, and he’d have the Cubs game on his TV. WGN, of course.”