I was staring at Psalm 63. Not really reading it. Focusing was hard, early Saturday morning. So I was just staring. Some phrases are familiar to me. I’ve read this song before. It’s somewhat hopeful, somewhat mournful. But you know that feeling when you can’t make your brain engage and you sit staring at the […]

Vacations minimize time commitments. I had time to talk with Nancy and a friend about minimalism, an approach to living that gets rid of stuff. I read about it. I started to think about how many objects I have in my living and working spaces that have stories which stick to my heart like emotional […]

So how do I adjust my attention so that I’m developing people? Several commitments come to mind. Committing to: develop technology so that we aren’t fixing technology. If there are three rooms that need access to the internet at the same time, it would make sense to equip all of them with similar screens, laptops, […]

On Sunday mornings I run. First I run outside, a couple miles to get awake. Then I run at church, answering questions, troubleshooting the kinds of problems that occur when several hundred people of all ages gather in large and small groups in a 100,000 square foot facility. Teachers need technology, people need conversation, rooms […]

First published November 11, 2011. It’s simple to become a veteran. You either enlist or are drafted into the military. You survive. You get out of the military. You are automatically a vet. No application process. I’m not saying that it is easy, mind you, only that it is simple. In between the entering and […]