So which is real?  French tips or French fries?  Pedicures or potty time?  Can they both be real at the same time?  

As my friend John notes, 'reality is our friend. Everything else is fantasy.’  

'You must always stay in control," noted the region's Guinness designee, "but you'll never be in charge."

She almost seemed relieved, as if her comment were an itch that had just been scratched.  

As students we were asked to wrestle with topics we never imagined, citing writers we never heard of, to grapple with ideologies we didn’t believe and argue with others from towns we’d never known.

Our brains are built for harmony and our souls for integrity and discord doesn’t sit well in our souls.

And yet, the kids love to tell their friends that the tarnish came from their grandfather when he was a boy.  Knowing that Papa was once a boy and that there is proof is also real.  They like that. So does my wife.  Guess who’s getting another flux capacitor for Christmas. 

Casting vision is fun and is an important part of leadership, yet leaders are made on the front lines, doing the hard work of making vision happen. 

Grace always costs somebody something. God's grace to my friend cost me my friend. God's grace to me cost the Creator His Son.