HeyJaredAwkward Spirituality
Ryan's personal Substack encouraging an expansive, prophetic, and wildly generous perception upon this most beautifully awkward existence.
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The Name Your Life is Giving You (opens the original)
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When I entered kindergarten way back in the late 1900s, there were four other Ryans in my class.Last year at a Colorado Rockies baseball game, over a hundred Ryans showed up to sit together at a Ryan meet-up where each time a new Ryan walked in, the whole section of the stadium shouted, “Ryans here!” Growing up, I never thought that trendy name was all that significant. Ryan is said to be of Gaelic origins, which makes sense, especially knowing the amount of Scots-Irish that settled in our neck
You Owe Me! (opens the original)
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Webster’s: Deserve — verb: to be worthy, fit, or suitable for some reward or requital.Cambridge: Deserve — verb: to have earned or to be given something because of the way you have behaved or the qualities you have.I suppose it’s a perfectly reasonable word.And yet, I believe “deserve” is one of the most quietly toxic words in the English language.Not because
The Infinite Relational Adventure (opens the original)
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The following is from a sermon I recently preached at Hillside Community Church…Twenty-three years ago, when my wife Angela and I first moved to Denver, we landed in the luxurious Tamarac apartments. I was beginning my first semester at Denver Seminary just down the road, and she was working in the Tech Center. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!h-rd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com
Y’all Belong Here (opens the original)
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After a summer concentration on shadow work, I’ve found myself inhabiting a different dimension of both heightened honesty and self-compassion.With the wildness of shadow work, I’ve found that when the soil of consciousness is aggressively turned over, it shouldn’t be surprising that dreams begin to take on tiramisu-like layers. And they may not taste like a sweet dessert at first, but we pay care-full, non-anxious attention, knowing the work is moving us toward further beauty and wholeness. I f
The Biblical Imperative For A Perfect Lawn (opens the original)
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Fine. I suppose I do fit the caricature of a white, middle-aged, middle-class American male. So, I care about how my lawn looks. What’s that to you? I mean, I care in a way that might lean just slightly into OCD territory. So maybe I care more about the way our grass appears than how this essay’s written. Sue me.It’s like every time I water my lawn, I’m supposed to consider the ethics of water usage, how the Colorado River is drying up, and how water here in the West is becoming a full-fledged c
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