God’s Scrapbook

Have you ever wondered why we keep scrapbooks?  I know I have. My mom has made at least a couple of scrapbooks from when I was growing up.  They have the usual things – a lock of hair, a senior picture, and pictures of all kinds of relatives and vacations and...

Just Do Great Work

Do you have any idea how many hours I waste looking for the perfect blog template or plugins to help me make my stuff easier to find or share? Well, I don’t either.  But I know it’s more than I think it ought to be – especially when I could just...

There is no B-Team « Shaver’s Razor

I wrote a guest post for Aaron Shaver (@shaversrazor) at aaronshaver.com.  Here’s a taste – for the full meal, you need to click here. I don’t know about you, but I grew up watching the A-Team on TV. It was the mid-eighties and I was a teenager, so the...

How Much Does Excellence Cost?

I found a great article on Swerve. It made me think a little bit about how we often understand “excellence” and “effectiveness” as a destination or product rather than a byproduct of how we’re doing what we do and how we measure ourselves...

Love for All You’re Worth

Image by TimOve via Flickr I had a striking revelation a couple of days ago: if I love more people, I will experience more pain. I’ll have my heart broken more often. I’ll experience more disappointment and have to work through more misunderstandings....