Go the doctor, you’ll get better in a week. Stay home and treat yourself, you’ll get better in seven days.
Corollary: If you take the latter course, you won’t be out the $30 co-pay or the $20 prescription that will “only ease the symptoms.”
Category: Thoughts (page 11 of 15)
Great! Now it sounds like somebody’s shootin’ up the neighborhood with a shotgun…thanks, pal!
I’ve been really digging the Hillsong CD God He Reigns lately. One reviewer said it’s a great blend of the “classic” Hillsong stuff and the newer, younger, hipper United material. Whatever. All I know is it’s been leading me into the presence of God in a big, powerful way.
A couple of notes from this weekend…
- Gideon this morning.
- A couple of first-time guests and a couple of returning ones!
- Pumped about this week. Going to NewSpring for Unleash. Going with Gary and the Revolution crew. Thanks, Gary! It’s been about three years since I’ve been to a conference. I really, really need it! (Other than a new Moleskine, what does one take to a conference these days?)
- But I’m kind of afraid of what God’s going to do to me on the trip and at the conference. See, He’s been rocking my world in a lot of ways over the last couple of weeks. He’s probably got something bigger in mind. He always does, doesn’t He?
- The lovely and gracious “Mrs. Just Charlie” is the best wife in the world, hands down!
- Real change is hard, because it means you’ve got to change personally before you can help your organization/team/whatever change.
- I challenged our bunch to pray and dream “one size bigger” today.
- Let’s keep daylight saving time all year around!
4:00 a.m. is going to get here pretty early. See you later…
I’ve been notoriously slack in setting – and achieving – good effective goals. I’ve been thinking about that over the last couple of days. I figured up that just a little over 12% of 2008 has already passed by, leaving just under 88% of the year to accomplish some goals. In what’s left of this year, here are some of my objectives…
- Stop looking at the wind and the clouds
- Be debt-free, except for the mortgage
- Get serious about training again – physically, spiritually, etc.
- Learn something new every day
- Encourage somebody every day
- Re-kindle my passion
Overheard another conversation this morning that went something like this…
Person #1: So, you got a big weekend planned?
Person #2: Oh, you know…the usual…honey-do list and all that.
I decided I don’t ever want to answer that weekend question like that ever again. My answer of choice from this weekend on needs to be something like this…
Person #1: So, you got a big weekend planned?
Me: As a matter of fact, I do! I’m going to help change somebody’s life!
What about you? You got a big weekend planned?
I talked to two people back-to-back this morning at the YMCA. One has been out of work for months. His excited comment: “I may actually get to go to work on Monday!” The other person’s cynical and rather angry comment: “Well, I’ve got to go to work now!” Interesting contrast…
Oh, a couple of other New Spring-related items from my Snowy Sunday…
- Great quote from an interview with worship leader extraordinaire, Lee McDerment…
Be someone whose private passion for God out steps their public passion.
- And good stuff about your message – my message?!?!?! – from Tony Morgan.
I can’t remember where I heard or read this quote first…
Calling a road race a ‘marathon’ would be like calling a regatta a ‘titanic.’
Hmmm…
Still got The Derailers on my mind, in my ears, and out my speakers! What else is in there, you ask? Well, you didn’t ask, but since I told the woman from the paper today that the main thing I like about blogging is that I don’t have to get anybody else’s permission to write what I think, I can put it down here if I want to! So there!
- Cowboys – not shepherds – as a great metaphor for biblical leadership. This thought has been on my mind since dark and early this morning when I read an article in National Geographic about modern cowboys.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance.
- Enough wintry mix already!
- What if I could find a group of worship guys (and gals) who sound like The Derailers, Two Tons of Steel, Andy’s Automatics, BR549, or Moot Davis? (And how cool would it be to have a worship leader named “Moot”?)
- Maybe that bunch would include a great girl steel player like Cindy Cashdollar! (And how cool would it be to have a worship leader named “Cashdollar”?)
- CPR might save somebody’s life, but an all-day class in it will make you sleepy!
- Nutrition and Bible study: Too much of a good thing make you fat?
- Dido’s White Flag started my day today – a long time ago!
…you got it! And I hope all you folks who wanted some winter are happy! Man! I hate – yep, that’s H-A-T-E! – that cold white stuff that’s steadily falling from the sky!
Funny, there’s already a massive shortage of bread and milk at our local mega-mart. Why bread and milk, anyway? I asked that question to no one in particular at our YMCA today, and people responded with some variation of the following…
Because you can always eat the bread and you can put the milk outside to stay cold if the power goes out.
What?!?!? There’s a lot of other stuff you can eat besides bread (Confucius say: Man does not live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter). And you can put anything – not just milk! – outside to stay cold if the power goes out! But there they were, lined up in our mega-mart, toting gallons of milk and loaves of bread! Go figure!
Anyway, if you wanted some winter, and if you think the snow and inevitable ice is a good thing, then God bless you! Personally, I’m praying it’ll turn 70 degrees before morning!