Wrestling is ballet with violence.
Recovery is the urge, the wrestle, and the resurrection.
As good as I was at wrestling, I never thought I was any good.
Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.
Jesus tells us: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’ (Mk 12:31). How can we love our neighbor if we can’t or won’t love ourselves, at least a little? When we hold ourselves to unrealistic standards, that perfectionist attitude can’t help but tr...
So often, even when we stop to say a blessing before a meal, we’re mentally preparing to spoon some pasta or potatoes onto our plates. We’re not usually focused on the present moment, simply placing ourselves before our food and entering into the...
Food and eating often mask our pain, our inner longing for God, for acceptance. It is key to know our motivation for eating as well as for other actions. Why do I eat? Am I tired, am I bored, am I stressed and tired? A good practice is to live in the...
I am noticing a big difference in the way the hospital workers are looking at me as I approach Jess’s room. The look of sincere sympathy that used to be on their faces when they made eye contact with me is gone. It has been replaced by shear helple...
I am always on the edge of what I am doing. I do everything badly, sloppily, to get it over with so that I can get on to the next thing that I will do badly and sloppily so that I can then do nothing - which I do anxiously, distractedly, wondering al...
Referencing 2 Corinthians 4:6, Robert Hewitt compares jars of clay in the first century to the same value we would put on a cardboard box. Joni Eareckson Tada queries whether we would question God's right to leave some holes in the box in order to gi...
There is an open circle.” This mantra is what my high school coaches would say to me during wrestling practice when they knew that I was physically exhausted and was about to rest for a moment. There was an open circle on the wrestling mat, and if ...
I never want to hide my wrestling background.
You always have to wrestle with chaos.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.
Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.
Barton: Sex? He's a man! We wrestled!
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.
I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.
In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.
