In other times in my life, I wouldn’t have even thought about God. I would have thought about how dumb the situation was. I would have had a little pity party for myself. But because I was trying so hard to listen, the simple reality of God’s will smacked me upside the head.
Multi-tasking, but missing out
Kristin from over at Halfway to Normal recently posted about how difficult it is to be a parent these days (Parenting from the old gut in a new world.) In the article, she referenced a Stanford University study on Multitasking and shared this quote: When we media multitask, we’re not really paying attention to the people…
Do Not Conform
Weekends in the fall seem to be a portrait of contrast in my life. I experience in those two short days each weekend my best moments and my worst ones. You see in my family… Saturdays in the fall are good for only one thing: Hawkeye football games (okay… you Cyclone fans can insert yourselves…
Tag… I’m it!
As I looked at my google reader queue, I realized I had 457 unread posts. That is unreal. And it was necessary to fix the problem. A bit of the way into the adventure, I found out that I had been tagged by my friend Jessica and didn’t even realize it! So, since I’m a few weeks late, I figured I had better remedy the problem:
GC02: Fruits vs. Roots… or the Call to Action vs. IS3
An interesting counterpoint to all of my general conference focused discussions on the Call to Action has been my involvement on the local level with the Iowa Safe and Supportive Schools (IS3) grant. One afternoon as I was pouring over survey data and statistics and numbers and practices for the IS3 grant, I asked myself…
GC01: Call to Action Study – Part 2
As I mentioned in Part 1 of this post, I am going through the Call to Action Study put out by the Council of Bishops with my congregation. In our first session we covered sections 1-3 and in the second session we examined 4-6. The call to grow more vital congregations. My folks noticed that the…
plotting and planning
I spent part of my afternoon off today doing laundry, and the other part plotting out the remainder of my flower garden. I’m putting in mostly perennials, so that they are easier to work with in the long run… Here is what I have so far.
Going All In
…many of us are like this dimmer switch up here. We waver in how much light we let out into the world. Our lights are not off completely – but neither are they shining at 100%, 100% of the time.