Life
Nic Davidson

Two Mothers Teresa: The Art of Leaving

“We cannot make circumstances turn out in a specific, pre-determined resolution of our preference. We can, however, know that when these decisions greet us, we can cut every tie, every umbilical, every grasp, and offer ourselves to the equation, regardless of the pain.”

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Nic Davidson

Identity Lies & Where Your Identity Lies

“We’ve got a stranglehold on being “us”, because we’re afraid of losing ourselves in the swarm; but the problem with a stranglehold is that, eventually, what we’re holding gets….strangled.”

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Life
Nic Davidson

Superman and a 38-Year-Old Boy

From the onset, that’s what I always found in Superman and wanted for myself. No one was left unaffected. In that possible world, the scrawny and the bully, the beautiful and the broken, they all squint upward, crane their necks, and rise.

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Life
Nic Davidson

On Loving More

That’s the beautiful message of this gospel of life (evangelium vitae)–that our seemingly feeble attempts at love, our lackluster stutter steps not only make Him proud, but that His strength is most evident in my weakness.

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Life
Nic Davidson

Praying “for” Others

My wife, Jacelyn, is a pit bull when it comes to anything she knows is true, right, or necessary. When she looked out the window

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Life
Nic Davidson

Making A Murderer, Loving the Guilty

It is the heart of Christianity, though, to leave the safety of innocence and take the pain and suffering of someone else’s guilt upon yourself…Fight to preserve the innocent, but fight just as hard to restore the guilty.

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Nic Davidson

The Illness of the Bended Walker

On May 12, I contracted Chikungunya Fever, a mosquito-born virus that has recently been declared an epidemic in the Caribbean. Symptoms included fever, rash, intense

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