Even if you take the toll highway from Monterrey to Mexico City, which is well-tended, less crowded, and a generally smoother experience, you will still have the chance to pass herds of goats wandering in the slow lane and vehicles in weirdly legal states of decomposition. To mention this fact isn’t to suggest that Mexico is a primitive or what you’d call a “developing” country, just that the levels of permission here are on an order different than what you are used to in your home country, if your home country is the United States. If you have need to move your flock of goats along a high-speed roadway, go to it; if you want to assemble the undercarriage and engine of your vehicle in one place and the body and interior in another hundreds of miles away, feel free to improvise a wooden driver’s seat and take off, friend. We will just keep moving alongside. Continue reading “Getting To Know You”
At The Mexican Border
I am at the border with one of my favorite families in Mexico – Don Elias Hernandez'. These guys are beyond solid and are a tremendous blessing to me, and have been through the years.
The closer I got the border, the more people wanted to caution me about coming here. I understand, and I appreciate their concerns. Tomorrow we travel what has been known to be a very dangerous road on our way to Monterrey. Continue reading “At The Mexican Border”
Escaping Vanity
“All that we call human history–money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery–[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” C.S. Lewis
To find meaning in life, to look for your “passion in life”, or to attempt to discover ultimate meaning, apart from God, is vanity. Hey, but that's just the deep stuff. There are innumerable others paths to the shallows of vanity that each have their own appeal. I can see the effect of deep and shallow vanity all around me. I bet you can too. It is deeply disheartening. Continue reading “Escaping Vanity”
Not Broad Appeal
My message is not intended to be broad appeal… I have come to realize this. It was troubling at first.
However, I have been given specific things to do and accomplish, and this is why.
I fear for those whose message is, in fact, broadly appealing. Human favor is an intoxicating and bewitching thing…. and should not be approached without extreme caution. It's power to seduce must not be underestimated. Continue reading “Not Broad Appeal”


