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Take a Walk

August 14, 2007 in Links, Ministry with 0 Comments

I love to walk at work. The church here has a sprawling campus, with everything spread out; so whenever I have to run something between buildings I try and enjoy the scenery. But sometimes I’m not really going anywhere, sometimes I’m just walking. For my creative juices to flow I have to spread my legs a little, and breathe fresh air for a change. Taking 5 minutes to walk across the campus energizes me, and gets me going for another few hours. The great thing about my walks is it lets me visit with kids. We have a Parent’s Day Out program here at the church, and I love getting to run into kids outside of the normal ‘church environment.’ Here in a couple of weeks school will be in session, so there will be even more kids on campus! So as often as time allows I try and take a walk to visit with the people in and around the church, and I highly recommend it to anyone stuck in an office for any amount of time.

I’m convinced we could all be more productive if we could find the things that energize us!

Change is Good, Change is Bad

February 28, 2007 in Personal with 0 Comments

Sorry for the lack of postings this week. It’s been a crazy week, and it’s only Wednesday! There is so much I’d like to write about this week, that I can’t in this forum. In the next couple of weeks I’ll play catchup, I promise.

Here are some great thoughts on change.


It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. -Alan Cohen

It doesn’t work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps. -American Proverb

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. -Andy Warhol

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. -Charles Darwin

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. -Charles Kettering

In The Land of the Stupid

January 14, 2007 in Links with 1 Comment

Have you heard about this?

AT&T set to launch rebranding campaign next week for Cingular switch to AT&T

I am a Cingular customer that at one time was an ATT Wireless customer. For the past 2 years I have had to deal with the change to Cingular. I had to change my account to Cingular accounts, I eventually had to get Cingular branded phones to work with my ‘new’ Cingular account, and I have seen ATT Wireless become a distant memory. In fact, even the ATT Wireless stores in my area, have transitioned from blue ATT logos to orange Cingular logos. I know this happens everyday so I try and just pretend it doesn’t matter what the name of my wireless carrier is.

Then this happens! Does this make any freaking sense? Only 4 months ago the ATT Wireless store in my area completely renovated their space and transitioned to Cingular. And now it all begins back again? I don’t really care, but it seems utterly absurd. Where are the people that stand up in a board meeting and say, “Hey fellas, we just spent 1/2 a billion dollars moving to the Cingular brand. Let’s just let it go.”

Diaper Qualification

December 8, 2006 in Personal with 2 Comments

A conversation heard in my house a few days ago….


My wife says to me, “Honey, I think Lauryn’s diaper is dirty, could you please change her?”

I cut my eyes at her and sigh

“Come on, please? I’ve already changed three poopy diapers today.”

“Why are you telling me that?” I reply

“I’m just letting you know. I thought maybe you would get up and take care of it if you knew how many I’ve already dealt with,” says my wife.

I reply, “Knowing that doesn’t make me want to change her diaper. It just lets me know you’re more qualified.”

In all fairness, I do change my fair share of diapers. Just not on this day, at this moment.

Living in this World

September 26, 2006 in Links with 0 Comments


I was reminded this weekend of the scene in the movie Hotel Rwanda, when the Hotel manager tells one of the journalist covering the massacre that when the rest of the world sees the atrocities being committed in Rwanda, that people all over the world will come to their aid. In the scene, the journalist tell the hotel manager that when people around the world see these images on their televisions, they will simply say how horrible it is and then change the channel and go on with their lives. Are we not all guilty of proclaiming how horrible something is, then doing nothing about it? That is the American way, really.

Read some of the headlines over the past few weeks just in the grand ol‘ USofA

Geesh, what are we coming to? I feel like I should do something, but don’t know what. But my super cynical mind tells me that there have always been atrocities in the world. I wonder sometimes if having 24-hour 365-days a year news just makes stories more accessible? I wonder if these horrible things happened for years, and the news never made it far out of their local news region?

But there are good things in this world too! And I’m certain these have never been headlines before. Headlines like this really make me glad to live in the world we do.

Vaccine aims to wipeout ear, sinus infections

As a parent of 3, this is good news. I cannot begin to explain to you what good, great news this is. Seriously, this is GREAT news! This vaccine alone, could eliminate a dozen Dr. visits a year! Think, I will rarely have to read 3 year old issues of Popular Mechanics in waiting rooms anymore.



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