But we know a few things about love. For one, it’s patient and kind. Or so says God. And Macklemore, I guess. It doesn’t boast. It isn’t arrogant or rude, insisting on its own way…whoa, whoa, whoa.
Beka Johnson
Beka is the Director of Lifecycle Marketing at a hypergrowth startup serving churches and nonprofits. In her free time, you can find her gardening, crafting, reading, traveling, throwing dinner parties, writing, playing board games, watching films, building LEGO cities, and/or drinking fancy bourbon cocktails.
Failure | If I Could Do It Over Again
And most of the time it feels like the safest conversations are the shallow ones. But I don’t want to live in a world where our only conversational refuge is chit-chat about the weather.
Adultish | When I Grow Up
When I grow up, I’ll have it all together. I’ll wake up every day at five am and never hit the snooze button.
Self Betrayal | Friendship Gone Wrong
There’s something jarring about a person betraying his brand and stubbornly sitting in that broken promise like it’s who he’s been along. It’s an act of self-betrayal before it’s an act of any other sort of betrayal.
Best Meal | Eyes, Ears, Nose, and Tongue
“Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it.” ―Robert Farrar Capon, The…
Furniture | A Better You in You
There’s a piece of furniture in my family that’s almost become sort of a character in our stories. It’s terrified little girls and beat up little boys. I don’t know if it’s got a heart, but it’s definitely got soul…
Eternity | Changing Seasons
When I think of seasons, I think of Cummings and the inevitable, ordinary passing of days. And it reminds me that I’m just a human like other humans (down they forgot as up they grew). I was born, and one day I’ll die.
The Oscars | Consequences of Art
The gossip columnists and film critics. Late-night TV. Someone always trying to dig into their private world or snap a photo. It just isn’t fair, really.
Inbound | Why I Heart It
By giving control back to the people, we allow them to control their own level of engagement with us. That puts the burden back on us to produce truly excellent content…
Brand | Stop Caring What Everyone Thinks
Great brands focus on the people who are just head over heals in love with them. The fanatics. The crazies.
Employee Loyalty | 4 Non-Negotiables
I recently read a quote from Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer in which she said, “Burnout is about resentment.” This thought has been on my mind now for a few days, and I think there’s something to it.
Management | Strengths and Weaknesses
As a former teacher, I know we don’t all learn the same way. I know we don’t all care about the same things, and we don’t all have the same strengths or the same weakness…
Change | What I am Afraid Of
It changes us in a way that is important for the soul. So important that a life can feel a little bit empty when it’s gone.
Goodness | Hot + Sour
Maybe we eat spicy foods because we’re culinary masochists, or maybe we just know pain and growth are tied together in ways we cannot and should not ignore.
Growing Up | Love and Vulnerability
What I know is that love demands vulnerability, and I cannot know the former fully without understanding and embracing the latter. But as Capon pointed out,…
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish them—words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.” —Stephen King
Beka is the Director of Lifecycle Marketing at a hypergrowth startup serving churches and nonprofits. In her free time, you can find her gardening, crafting, reading, traveling, throwing dinner parties, writing, playing board games, watching films, building LEGO cities, and/or drinking fancy bourbon cocktails.
Wanderlust | No, I’m Not Lost
I love it when I get to travel because I often meet interesting people and have more time to reflect and really pay attention to…
Maturity | It’s Not All Or Nothing
One of the most important lessons I’ve had to learn in life is that people will fail me. Over and over again, they will fail…
Houhai | Killing the Comfort Zone
I called it quits with my comfort zone in the summer of 2010. Since then, we’ve had sort of a rocky friendship; but you know, these things happen. I remember it distinctly–the culmination.
Jeff | The Boy Who Disappeared
The first time I met him, he was putting glue in his brother’s hair. Spikes. It looked painful, and I immediately assumed they were trouble. But sometimes delinquents don’t mean to be. Sometimes they just don’t see any other options.