All Posts By: Byron McCoy

OPEN MOMENT

               I slept through into the sun this morning.  This doesn’t happen often, and when it does, almost always, I sleep alone.  I don’t know why this is, only that it’s so.                Bridgette and Audrey stayed north last night for a volleyball tournament early this morning.  Two days ago, I planned to go, but […]

COMPETE

               I ran this morning (or something I’d call close to such).  I can’t tell you the last time I have.  There was a time when I was good about it.  Such time has been a while.                I was angry.  I was frustrated.  I knew my spirit and energy were wrong, and feelings—like problems—don’t […]

MODERN SAINT

               I logged on again today to start my morning—computer and not on phone.  Again, just as yesterday—the only post I saw—receiving of a message:                “Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.”—G.K. Chesterton                It begs to question.  What is our generation?  What defines it?  What embodies it?  Toward what […]

LENTEN FAIL

               I went on Instagram this morning.  I used a computer and not my phone because it is the phone that sucks and keeps me in (and just like that, I begin to rationalize and seek reason and justification for why I did what I did—when trying not to—signs of a struggle enough).                The […]

MORNING WHIM

               It did not always need to be deep: life and love and all’s emotions.  There were times, and many, when it was enough to enjoy and immerse in the simple pleasures, whims, and desires that arose—to celebrate what is always there when simplified and allowed to be.                So it was in the morning […]

RESOLUTION

               God is calling me to be quiet.  A week into Lent, I’ve given little up—but still I hear God call, discerning what He asks.                God is calling me to be quiet, to silent and separate from noise and distractions that take away from life and days.                 I chase cheap dopamine rewards.  I […]