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More to come. Time rejoin the world...

There's Something in the Air

Watched the Macworld keynote yesterday. WOW. Those guys have it together. Style, design, innovation, presentation. The Macbook Air is simply amazing. Simple. Elegant. Lovely. Everyone but the biggest Apple diehard knows that their products are not the highest quality. Or easiest to use. Despite what they claim. But Steve Jobs ability to “sell” the idea. Bring passion. Excite the masses. His presentation skills are second to known. His direction and will lead his company to new and higher things seemingly every year.

Why can’t we as followers of Jesus do just as good a job? Why can’t we inspire the masses with the product we have to offer? Why don’t people line up to hear our story? Well, sometimes they do…

Or should we be after that? Jesus was never interested in the crowd. He was never about attention. He was seemingly devoid of ego (not accused of having too much). Yet His movement (company) changed the entire world. More than any Mac or iPod or iAnything.

I love and am fascinated by good design and innovation. I appreciate the quality and the passion. But I’m not sure if that should be translated to our life of faith…

Together again for the first time...

It's been forever but I'm hoping to start blogging again, again... I've started this over once before and I'd like to again. So here goes...

Not sure where to start. Life's been very busy. Three boys. All under 8. A beautiful wife whose about ready to ditch all the "stay-at-home" stuff and go to work. A new role at church. Lot's more responsiblity at work. Many books read. Many new thoughts. Lots to write about. And so I'll begin.

I'm still a student/follower of Jesus. I still can't image life without that relationship. I'm not that much better at "it" then I was before. If that's possible to say... Still amazed by grace. It's a "thought that can change the world."

Stay tuned. I'm back and will be posting daily for a while...

Catching Up...

I had lunch with a good friend today. I’m in Indianapolis for work and he lives close to Indy. It was great to catch up. We talked about family. Work. Life. Music. Reading. Lotsa stuff…

We also talked about the church. Serving in it. Ministering with those we love. The purpose of the church. What we can do. Lotsa stuff…

One thing that really captured my attention surrounded the idea of the reaching out to those in the college or around that age. The church over the last bunch of years (even back in to the 80’s) has done a pretty consistently, deplorable job reaching out to those in this age group.

Why? Do we not know how to reach them? Have we done a bad job of preparing them for this age during “youth ministry”? Have we not done all we can to prepare their parents to in turn get them ready for this time?

I hope to be able to help answer some of these questions. I hope to be part of the discussion within my church and with my friends who serve in churches. This generation. This age group of people I’m referring to in the post is filled with tremendous potential. Potential to change the entire world. Potential to end poverty around the world. To show the world what true followers of Jesus are like. Who followers of Jesus should be.

I hope for the future. I hope for myself. I hope for all followers of Jesus…

Love, true love...

I’m married. My wife’s name is Michelle. I’ve loved her over half my life. We met in junior high, dated our senior year in high school, and got married as soon as I graduated college. She’s always been there for me. Through everything. Through my craziness. Through infants, moves across country, job changes, struggles of faith. She’s been there. Recently we hit a rough patch. One of those things you go through after almost 13 years of marriage. I’m good at making it seem like it’s just as much her fault. And she’s good at calling me on that. But we both know it’s mostly me. I’m a self-centered, egotistical jerk (my words, not hers). I often care far too much about what I want, need, expect. And far less about her. And yet she still loves me.

I love her too. I love her to a depth I guess I didn’t fully realize until recently. I cannot imagine my earthly existence without her. I can’t remember life before her. I don’t want to even try to imagine life after her. She is me. I am hers. Love. Complete. Whole. Encompassing. Crazy. Frustrating. Bewildering. Beautiful. That’s how I think of our life together.

I’m away from her and our boys right now. I’ll be gone more than I’m home for the next 3-4 weeks. And I miss her. I miss her smiling eyes. I miss her “what are you looking at” look when I gaze at her. I miss having dinner with her and the boys as family. I miss her. Marriage is an amazing thing. We both take our vows seriously. We committed to each other. We’re to be there thru thick and thin. Sickness and health. Good times and bad. We chose to love each other, forever. That is a choice we made once. Once for all. And I love…

I love you ‘Shell. I’ll be home soon…