Most of the time we are in motion towards somewhere. Building to something. It’s going to be epic and grand. One day. When we finally learn all the lessons, make all the right decisions, meet all the right people, and check off all the boxes… But then there are moments when it’s almost like your
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And… just like that I crossed the one year threshold of writing this thing. It’s been a really good outlet and a way for me to practice contributing. As someone who enjoys speaking, the act of writing has been especially challenging to communicate more with less. I can obsesses about getting the system perfect because
“Hurry is the great enemy of the spiritual life.” – Dallas Willard Just read an excerpt from John Mark Comer’s book to be released in October later this year. Powerful stuff. The title alone says it all: The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. In a culture that wears busyness as a badge of honor and where
We’ve done a pretty lousy job of performing delegation as it was intended to be done. Quit demoting people. When we delegate, we entrust responsibility to another person. But what really happens: dumping a bunch of junk work on someone else because we’re tired of doing it, don’t want to do it, or we’ve simply
Pick one of these. Multitasking is a myth. We either consume, contribute or contemplate. In order to effectively do one, we have to effectively not do the others. I’m taking a short break from knowledge consumption in order to more effectively contemplate and contribute. This means no more listening to podcasts, reading blogs, checking social
Eugene Peterson wrote “Listening is not only a function of biological acoustics; it is a spiritual skill of the soul.” I’m prone to thinking that spiritual listening will just “happen” to me… however, the idea that it might be a skill of the soul is so invitational. It’s inviting us into the chance to dig
Over the 4th of July holiday we spent some time with family doing fireworks, eating food and a lot of swimming. I noticed something attached to the side of the pool: an automatic water level sensor. Maybe these are super common but I had never seen one before. Essentially the sensor has a floating device
The easy way is backward. The illusionary way is around. Going over means also dealing with coming down. The best way is through. It can seem impossible, but so was everything before it was done.
I just read how someone steers a hot air balloon: they change the altitude. The winds change with altitude, therefore, if you need to move in a certain direction you either go up higher or drop down lower. Sometimes in our work, families or friendships we keep floating along hoping for something else to change
It can be daunting if you’re trying to boil the ocean. However, if you walk down to the beach, dip your cup in the sea, walk back to the fire, then you can proceed to boil the ocean in a manageable way. One cup at a time. (HT to Mick Ebeling). I was listening to
