The Journal

Socrates said, "An unexamined life is not worth living." This is my feeble attempt at examining my life.

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Baseball and Grace

10:45 AM Posted by Daniel Rose , No comments
It’s no secret, I love baseball. When my brothers and I were growing up we invented a game in our backyard called “Balooga Ball”. It was our own form of baseball and it was amazing. I loved playing as a kid. I married a rabid Cardinals fan. We spent our first seven anniversaries going to weekends at...

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

40 Days to Easter

3:13 PM Posted by Daniel Rose , No comments
I wrote about grace yesterday, almost one year to the day, I wrote nearly the exact same thing. Weird huh? I think what happens is that when we get close to Easter my heart is drawn to thinking about what took place that first Easter.That first Easter a moment that changed the course of history. An...

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

On Grace

7:52 AM Posted by Daniel Rose , No comments
I’ve been thinking about grace quite a bit recently. Sometimes that happens to me. An idea or concept gets stuck in my head and I just can’t shake it. It’s a splinter in my brain.Grace has been like that over the last few days. I just can’t shake the reality of grace. I keep thinking about a conversation we had one night at my friend Bob’s house. He asked a simple question, “What’s grace?” Everyone...

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

On Calling

12:13 PM Posted by Daniel Rose , No comments
I have to get this off my chest. It’s something that has been weighing on my heart and mind for a couple weeks. I’ve wrestled, I’ve prayed, I’ve pondered. I love the Church. I love it with everything that I have. It is beautiful and messy and ugly and wonderful.The thing that I love most about the...