Clay Oglesbee

Texts about "striving" make me itch. They bring to mind our own cultural commitments to speak about lifting ourselves by our own bootstraps to reach high goals.

An organization was leading a training seminar for professionals....

As pastors, we spend a great deal of time sharing in the ongoing lives and adventures of our congregants and community members. We are also called, literally, to come to love and suffer with them when disappointments, disasters or deaths occur.

A man once bought himself a cemetery plot and a lawn chair, and then took a week of vacation to sit on the chair at his plot....