“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
Month: July 2019
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
