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October 19, 2009

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Yard Work Fueled by Thankfulness

I hate yard work. I don't say that lightly. As I wrote those words, I interrogated my emotions. Was I being dramatic? Was I taking on a victim mentality? Was it because of my allergies? After some thought I can honestly say that yard work falls into the "hate" category. But if you live in a country where private homes have yards, you don't have a lot of money to pay someone else to do it and you don't live in an apartment, yard work is part of your fate. Now its important to note that I know not everyone can relate to my feelings. I've met plenty of people who love to get out there on a Saturday and work on their yard. I envy those people and am thankful for them. So when I have put off the yard work for a while and a sunny Saturday comes along, you will see me out there sweating behind a lawn mower and fighting with bushes. As I've thought about my attitude on those days and the way I went about the work, I had a very interesting realization. Because o

Being Generous in Tragedy

When a tragedy strikes today we are immediately surrounded by words and images. We sit in our living rooms and stare at the screen insure of what to do. After all, you are sitting in relative luxury and looking into utter chaos and disaster that is only made possible by technology. So what do you do? Many of us pick up the phone or go to our computers and make a gift. Usually we do this for a mixture of reasons. We want to feel like we did something. We want to ease our guilt. We want to make a difference. The reasons go on and on. But as we are watching the images from this latest tragedy in Haiti, I would like to ask you to be generous in a different way. Here are some simple things that take a very different spin on how we as generous minds should response: If you don't know anything about Haiti, go to the CIA Factbook and get some understanding so that you can pray. Share what you have learned with a co-worker, someone in your family or someone at church. Pray with your family

Reinventing the Rules for Reading

“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.” ― C.S. Lewis Good habits take discipline and intentional action . . . two things that our time-starved culture struggles to grab hold of. One of the great habits that drive our ability to engage our world for the better is reading. And on World Book and Copyright Day , we thought it would be appropriate to talk about the discipline of reading. The need to talk about this is growing more and more necessary. We were amazed recently to read a guest blog post by Justin Zoradi on Donald Miller’s blog that shared some of the recent stats on reading patterns in the United States. One of them was that “80% of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.” From you readers out there I can hear a sudden and uncontrollable “gasp!” But from the overall culture, it is probably not that concerning. After all, we are consuming a huge amount of content in many f

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