I was thinking back to a great dinner we had on our vacation with Ed and Judy Underwood. Ed is the Sr. Pastor at the historic Church of the Open Door and his first book about his battle with cancer called, “When God Breaks Your Heart,” is set to release soon. Ed has a great
I once had a mentor tell me that shooting for “quality time” with people was misplaced. He argued that you can never necessarily plan for or determine what time will actually be “quality” and produce long lasting memories. Rather, he said, plan for “quantity time.” Somewhere in the middle of lots of time you will
Yesterday we were able to be at Linda Janney and Travis Van Voorst’s wedding in La Jolla near San Diego. The girls were “flower girls” and did an amazing job!! It was a beautiful wedding and I was stoked that it was right on the ocean so it was ten degrees cooler than the triple
Tamara and I were able to get away and have dinner at one of the wineries in Temecula. I pretended we were in Italy… it almost worked!!
The car is packed, so I’m calling myself officially “on vacation“!! I hope to have a meaningful thought or two and maybe even a dynamite picture from the beach while I’m gone, but I’m not planning on blogging too much :) Off to the time share (and the silly sales pitch I signed us up
So Tamara and I were out with a couple last night and came across some deer. There were two fawns that couldn’t have been more than a couple of days old, so we stopped and took a look. Here’s Tamara with the cutest and smallest little deer that I’ve ever seen!!
Less than 24 hours now to our first real vacation in two years. We’re heading down to So. Cal, and I hope to actually read a book or two in addition to Sea World and swimming pools.
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So this was the water in the fish tank at the Chinese Food place I went to for lunch. I was a little worried about the food :)
Somebody worked really hard to encourage me today. That’s a pretty amazing thing. It makes me want to go watch the movie Pay it Forward again… funny how love, grace, generosity, encouragement and affirmation are contagious.
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I was talking with Rick Gerhardt yesterday and came up with a saying: We want missionaries not crusaders. Missionaries seek to serve, reach and and build up, while crusaders look to critique, wage war and tear down. I have no desire for Antioch to become the biggest church around. I do, however, have the desire
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