Are you in organizational leadership in any capacity? I’d love some advice.
What helps you:
Advent is about preparation for judgement, and that is actually a good thing.
Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light.
An under-appreciated mark of a truly great sports commentator: knowing when to say nothing.
Messi scored, and there was a 45 second period of commentary silence followed by a subtle, “It had to be him.”
Advent is coming. Time to set some intentions for this Holy New Year.
Oh no. It has happened. I tried to prevent it by asking reason to temper my expectations.
But mere hours before kickoff …
I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN.
USA is taking home the trophy.*
*or advancing to the Round of 16 and remaining competitive in their first knockout match.
I just finished reading Pillars of the Earth. It was published when I was four years old, but seems to have been written for me to read at this exact age (37).
Great books tend to feel like that, don’t they?
An unusally free Saturday means that I had a chance to make some good progress on the playhouse.
I am pretty sure the title “Queen of Christmas” is already taken.
Leaving Twitter is a small but important first step towards a healthier relationship with technology, your neighbor, and your self.
Not because of Musk, but because Big Social is shrinking our souls.
The final first-person verb of the Nicene Creed helps us remember that the Christian faith is more than mental affirmation of truth. It involves a shaping of hopes and desires.
All Souls Day is a helpful antidote to our death-anemic culture that oscillates between ignoring and overly-fearing this experience shared by all living creatures.
All Souls Day helps us to remember that thou art dust … and to look for the resurrection of the dead.
The farmer and the pig.
Settled on a good use of a corner of our new backyard: building a playhouse for the kids. (Current ages 9, 7, and 2.)
I paused the Tottenham match I was watching in the 95th minute to wake up my daughter so she could rewatch Kane’s goal with me.
And then we discovered together that the goal was under review…
My fault? Sure.
VAR ruining the beautiful game? Absolutely.
Many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not as many as have fallen because of the tongue. … As you fence in your property with thorns, so make a door and a bolt for your mouth.
A gem from Ecclesiasticus found in today’s Daily Office Lectionary.
My wife returned this weekend from a two week pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago. My latest piece at Covenant is about my experience trying to walk the pilgrim way while caring for our kids here at home.
It was my own Camino de Solo Dad.
I do not love it when a match is decided by PKs—they are a terrible way to lose—but it was quite the experience being in the stands last night when FC Dallas advanced on Velasco’s Panenka.
What’s a Panenka, you ask?
The two teams I support most have coaches who insists on their “System” even when the results are not (yet/always?) positive.
I trust Conte when he says “trust the system” more than I do when Berhalter says the same. Here’s hoping for a surprise on the later come World Cup time!
The seven day week as a microcosm of the Church Calendar. Read more here.
Slowly but surely, my Run Thy Neighborhood project continues. Today’s run completed the outer frame of a neighborhood and a half, and a few missing street portions. Still a long way to go: I have completed 29/1240 Richardson streets so far.
(Literally) One step at a time.
Three years ago today I was ordained a Priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas.
The USAMNT proceeded to cough the ball up 54 times inside their own half in the first half alone. Think about that for a minute and it becomes almost impressive: they gave the ball away 1.2 times per minute. Unfathomable.
Ouch. But it’s just a friendly, right? RIGHT???
My Run Thy Neighborhood goal hit a first milestone today: Heights Park (my actual neighborhood) is complete. On to Arapaho Heights next!
A change I made to my work email last week has proven quite fruitful:
Emails that I am copied on now skip the inbox and go directly to a CC folder. I check that folder once or twice a day. With this one change, my work inbox has has gone from hundreds to dozens of daily emails.
Tottenham’s “win or tie even when it’s ugly” approach has finally caught up to them. I would not want to be sitting near Antonio Conte on the flight back to England…
I still think they wind up on top of their Champion’s League group, but this is a much needed wake up call.