by Tony LaMarca | Mar 5, 2024 | Open Journal
Is there a look that your face defaults to when you have a lot on your mind? Mine must be a combination of looking concerned and sad, but that’s also the look when I’m not thinking about anything. It’s just what I look like when I’m not...
by Tony LaMarca | Aug 20, 2020 | Open Journal
“If I don’t approach each new experience with an appropriate balance between confidence and humility, there’s a good chance I’m going to be humbled by force.”Destin Sandlin, “GOING SUPERSONIC with U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds! Pulling 7 G’s in an F-16...
by Tony LaMarca | Jul 29, 2020 | Open Journal
I’ve written thousands of words today more than once, only to delete them all. Sometimes that’s how The Holy Spirit works in me as He is forming and reforming my heart. I can’t even tell you what I wanted to write about at this point. As much as I...
by Tony LaMarca | Sep 11, 2019 | Open Journal
Certain events have a way of changing our perspective on things. The birth of your first child makes you aware of so many more dangers in the world. When your child is old enough to drive and becoming an adult, you start to see her differently. She’ll always be...
by Tony LaMarca | Jun 26, 2019 | Open Journal, Things I'm Learning
I recently finished a book called #iAmWorthIt: The Wishful Thinking of an Ignorant Man-child by Matt Luecht. Amazon describes it as an “…honest look at one man’s heart-journey in pursuit of an infinite and profound God. It is a transparent account of...
by Tony LaMarca | May 28, 2019 | Open Journal
I wasn’t feeling well this past weekend, but it was my week to bring the message at church. I knew it was going to be a message that someone needed to hear, because I needed to hear it myself. But, I did not expect to get the number of personal responses that I...