After one long day at work, I jumped on my bike to head home to have our house spiritual night. It was an average day for L.A, sunny, breezy, and warm, and as I was enjoying my commute home, I noticed that I was hitting a few bumps harder than normal. I pulled off to [...]
Read moreI have tried writing this post 3 or 4 times and each attempt failed. I started by picking some vague, topical issue and then I would attempt to apply my circumstances to it. I got a paragraph in each time before losing motivation and deleting everything I had down. Its frustrating having nothing to share. [...]
Read moreWhen I started EUIP I thought that I would learn about God in a different way than I was used to. I thought I would learn about God the “right way”. I figured being in a community where people read their Bibles daily, prayed, went to church, etc. I would be inspired to do the [...]
Read moreI have begun to feel like I have “heard it all” after only being on the job for 7 months. It is making me impatient. This is not a part of myself I like to own up to – my impatience – but it has always been there. And it has not been easy lately [...]
Read moreAs I have reflected over the course of this year on why I chose to do a year of service and what it means to me, a phrase keeps coming back to my mind. Here I am. Throughout the Bible, servants and prophets of God have responded to His call with this simple, yet powerful [...]
Read moreWhen I first came into it EUIP I thought that the intentional community portion would be like any other roommate situation, but I was wrong.(Another one of my expectations blown) My previous situations included myself living with people but never having any meaningful interactions, unless they were about money or house guests. So when I [...]
Read moreWith only 4 months left of my year of service with EUIP I’m having to start thinking about what I am going to do next. Where am I going to work and live next year? I’ve always struggled with starting things early and my approach to figuring out my plans for next year has been [...]
Read moreFrom the second I open my eyes in the morning to the moment I get off the bus to go to work at eCALS High school, I find myself in complete silence moving about without uttering so much as a word. It is during these periods that I often make sudden realizations, workout troubling thoughts, [...]
Read more2011 was a great year for me! I got mono and strep throat, racked up a big ole’ hospital bill, nearly been hit by a car twice, experienced what it is like to be in the workplace 40 hours a week, been frustrated with my co-workers, my housemates, my friends back home and my family, [...]
Read more“No Casey, don’t think, just do.” A friend told me this and I looked at him like he was crazy, how could I not think? My brain is always analyzing, always trying to figure out the best course of action, the next step, how to manage my health, what I should say, what I shouldn’t [...]
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