Ryan Chitwood

Ryan Chitwood

Jan 2025

Invocation for Second Sunday After Epiphany

Heavenly Father, we thank you for today. As the Psalmist wrote: Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens,
your faithfulne...
Jan 2025

Hello, World!
Dec 2024

On Constraints

It’s a common misconception that constraints are a bad thing. Constraints can be a good thing. Constraints can eng...
Dec 2024

Our Parenting Bookshelf

Last night, we went to our Sunday School Christmas party. We had a blast. Breakfast for dinner, a white elephant gift ex...
Dec 2024

Hope for the Flowers

In the 12th grade, I got one of the best gifts I’ve ever received. It was a yellow book with a butterfly on it cal...
Dec 2024

Where does your hope lie?

As I’m writing this, we’re in the middle of the 2024 election season. There are no winners decided yet. Hone...
Dec 2024

Expecto patronum

The Harry Potter books are likely the most significant novels for my generation. Many of us waited in line outside Barne...
Dec 2024

It's the hope that kills you

Last year, we started a new Men’s Bible Study on Wednesday nights. We studied an unlikely subject, an Apple TV+ sh...
Dec 2024

Dum spiro, spero

Dum spiro, spero. A Latin proverb meaning, “While I breathe, I hope.” From spiro (I breathe), we get words l...
Dec 2024

Hope is the thing with the feathers

“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - ...
Nov 2024

Adventus

Today is the start of the season of Advent. It’s the beginning of the Christian calendar, and the Christmas season...
May 2024

A High School Ornithology Syllabus

A month ago I wrote about my [dream job]({{ site.baseurl }}/2024/04/13/brookstone-ornithology-teacher). I’ve been ...
May 2024

Granddaddy was Good

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self-control. Goodness. When ...
Apr 2024

Why We Should Build a College House

We are a family whose blood runs red and black. That’s right. We’re Georgia Bulldogs. My wife and I both wen...
Apr 2024

Brookstone Ornithology Teacher

When I grow up, I want to teach Ornithology at my alma mater. I was an honor student at Brookstone. I loved my time ther...
Mar 2024

A Prayer for Easter 2024

Risen Savior, Morning has broken like the first morning, but this one is special. We gather here today for the biggest p...
Dec 2023

The Year of Presence

It’s a new year, and that means a new theme. Cortext can teach you all about yearly themes. Or read my post from l...
Dec 2023

The Year of Integration

Have you ever heard of a yearly theme? I first heard about this concept from Cortex. Heck, they even sell a Theme System...
Apr 2022

A God Wink

Have you ever noticed a coincidence that felt like more than random chance? It was probably a God Wink. My mom used to c...
Apr 2022

A Children's Bible Study Lesson

Every month, our senior pastor hosts a children’s Bible study at his home. I love this tradition. It shows the chi...
Mar 2022

But the Greatest of These is Love

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV) The wee...
Sep 2020

Hello, World!

Welcome to ChitChat, my little corner of the internet. You can think of this site as my public journal. I’ll write...