What Your Shoes Say About You

You buy vegetables at farmer's market -- carrying their ostentatiously exposed stems and leaves in an artistic canvas tote bag purchased at Etsy -- and render them into soup that day while listening to NPR solemnly address contemporary issues.

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You graduated from Princeton with a degree in Economics but feel tentative about the obvious career choice. Merrill Lynch can wait, and besides, you know all too well from your parents that money can’t buy “happiness,” in a spiritual sense, just a lot of caviar and oysters on a boat. Seems like this nautical theme has been following you around since childhood. You might just do some freelance consulting — after a trip to Burma or Laos — for a non-profit, before maybe joining the Peace Corps. In the mean time, have a lite beer on some Adirondack chairs at your family’s lakeside summer cottage with your creative writer girlfriend who brought her banjo. Soft hours pass, the cheese spread sweating under the sun. I guess there’s more to life than success, and socks.


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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

A Prayer To Remind You That You Are Never Alone

Devotional Message The most profound promise Jesus ever made to us was His everlasting, personal, and intimate presence in our lives. This continuous presence, without interruption or exception, demonstrates His unwavering covenant—to dwell with us at all times, regardless of where we are, what we are doing, or what we are experiencing. With His presence […]

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