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The Rambler

Truth and beauty get treated as relative while reputation and failure stick like labels you never asked to wear. The Rambler writes for millennials and young adults weighing community, work, faith, and whether Empower Network ideas speak to a generation tired of thin independence stories.

Loneliness and conviction share the farm road when time spent on ordinary care feels wasted next to career theater. Outwardly the posts explore young adult community life, economic sharing, lifestyle wholeness, tough friendship decisions, printed newspapers versus screens, and seeking God without cheap answers. Quietly the thread is hope without entitlement: narrow roads chosen for hidden gems, conversion as daily turning, and rest from questions that never end.

Self-help lists skip mystery. Pure culture rants skip the person doing dishes and grocery runs for family. Stay for a reflective life-and-community journal with a Christian spine and honest notes on giving EN a chance without pretending every struggle has a slogan. The Rambler works in journal-like essays, cultural reads, and slow thinking that values breadfetchers as much as breadwinners.

Which question would you finally put to rest if community and vocation had to fit the same narrow road?

The time I’ve “wasted” hasn’t been wasted

Sep 22, 2012 · The Rambler
Sometimes I get discouraged when I look back at my life and recall the many phases that seem wasted, but as I grow older I notice that those phases weren’t as wasted…
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Taking the narrow road

Sep 16, 2012 · The Rambler
The road less taken is chosen by its risky traveller not simply because of what he expects to get at the end of it; he doesn’t self-righteously assume that he’s headed to…
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A post about my life these days

Sep 15, 2012 · The Rambler
  My brother and I are living at a small horse farm in NJ. He deserves most of the credit for keeping it running, but I help out every here and there, mowing the…
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What is Empower Network missing?

Sep 13, 2012 · The Rambler
What’s wrong with Empower Network? It definitely isn’t perfect, so what’s it missing? I can’t say I know because I really don’t know much about it. I haven’t spent nearly as much…
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Tough decisions and believing in yourself

Sep 3, 2012 · The Rambler
Making tough decisions I’m known to make distinct decisions in my life. Sometimes people think I’m harsh for doing it, but I don’t let things drag on. I don’t live in complacency.…
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The elusive mystery of seeking God

Aug 16, 2012 · The Rambler
I don’t understand why when I run so far from God and then run back he feels so close, but when I try to do his will I feel so far away.…
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A natural social network (young adult community post 6)

Aug 1, 2012 · The Rambler
The social life Everyone has multiple networks that hardly ever interact with each other. We have our family, friends, our family friends, our friends from high school, college, work, church, online communities,…
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An economic community (young adult communty post 5)

Jul 30, 2012 · The Rambler
The Economic dimension Technological and economic progress in our society are not running course with cultural and moral progress. Many companies have noticed this, resulting in the emergence of a new subject…
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Young adult community post 4: Lifestyle, work and the wholeness of being

Jul 29, 2012 · The Rambler
living where you work “The truth of development consists in its completeness: if it does not involve the whole man and every man, it is not true development.” – Pope Benedict XVI…
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Pursuing happiness is about putting to rest all of your questions

Jul 22, 2012 · The Rambler
One theme has run through my entire life: the desire to be free. I don’t have to convince many people that Americans are losing sight of the dream. There aren’t too many…
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