Miscellaneous

Each January I ask the Lord for a new spiritual focus for the year. I pray the theme will increasingly permeate my life as the months go by. Here are recent themes… A Slave of Christ (2013), Better to Give Than to Get (2014), Keep in Step with the Spirit (2015), Listen and Love (2016). On Saturday, January 14, 2017 at […]

Each January I ask the Lord for a new spiritual focus for the year. I pray the theme will increasingly permeate my life as the months go by. Here are recent themes… A Slave of Christ (2013), Better to Give Than to Get (2014), Keep in Step with the Spirit (2015). A Few Laps Around the Pentateuch I’ve spent

Last night, as we lay in bed debriefing of the day, Shirin breathed with fatigue, “the last year has been a blur. I feel like I’ve lost a whole year. The only fun times I remember are our trip to Monterey and the Story Seminar.” “Where did the time go?” “Time flew by.” These common

Each January I ask the Lord for a new spiritual focus for the year. I pray the theme will increasingly permeate my life as the months go by. Here are recent themes… A Slave of Christ (2013), Better to Give Than to Get (2014). During this year’s fast, God gave me the phrase “keep in step with

Six of us sat in the Asian-accented hotel room this past Saturday night from 9 PM till midnight. We had just participated in six days of strategic gatherings to partner, learn and develop new ways to share Christ to the ends of the earth. Our hosts, Carol and Calvin Conkey, had created a warm setting

I love 60% of what I do every day. The other 40% I tolerate. I love strategy, developing new initiatives, expanding the scope of the Visual Story Network, meeting new people, working with teams, etc. Every role has downsides. I have to manage a lot of detail. I manage my own schedule, book my own

I am not particularly philosophical. I remember my mind being bent by St. Augustine’s treatise on time in his “Confessions.” Our sense of time makes us unique under the heavens.  Traveling outside of fixed time has been a great story device in print and on the screen. It is built into our DNA to want

Each January I ask the Lord for a new spiritual focus for the year. I pray the theme will increasingly permeate my life as the months go by. Here is my theme from last year… A Slave of Christ (2013) This year it came at 6:40 a.m. January 25, the morning after our Friday night

It’s cold in the dim corridor as I walk to room 6 for my retreat at Mission San Luis Rey.  As in prior years, I’m the only soul spending the night in the historic mission on the first Thursday of the New Year.  I light a candle in my dark room, open my guitar case,