While struggling to read through Isaiah before the year ends (don’t think I’ll make it), I have come to one of its historical sections that painfully reminds me of the dissonance in my own heart and life. In Chapters 37-39, we find something in Hezekiah that we see in ourselves all too well: a prideful…
Category: leadership
Walking while waiting
This post comes while I feel God is leading me through a transition in both my family and professional lives. And since I haven’t been on the trails, I don’t have running to help me process this season as I would have liked. Sometimes we see a vision of ourselves and become excited to touch…
my hope for my son? that he be greater than his teachers [read: parents]
There has been some talk about how this generation will be the first American generation in some time that will not be better off than their parents’ economically. Much has been made about the youth unemployment rate, and the difficulties of today’s college graduates in the job market with underemployment. While I cannot promise my…
what my newborn son has taught me about resting in God
This is my superstar: A couple of weeks ago, my wife was unquestionably my superstar, but now she has some intense competition. (I mean, look at this guy!) But this guy is my superstar, at least for the moment, because he’s teaching me lessons about life I couldn’t learn if it was still just my…
Cultivating creative solitude
I’ve been thinking a whole lot recently about how I don’t have many opportunities to be alone. Understandably, given my line of work, I should have written my previous statement, “I don’t take many opportunities to be alone?” but I’ll take this chance to evade responsibility for a moment. I have been thinking about what…
Is regulatory uncertainty really slowing sustainability?
While checking my Twitter feed before leaving to catch my train, I saw the following status from SustAbility: I find this status interesting because I’ve seen this notion a couple of times in the past few days that regulatory uncertainty is slowing sustainability. Actually, this argument has been advanced often in the past few years. …
Irene shows that when insight succeeds, irritability may set in
I find the discussion and pictures associated with Hurricane Irene amusing for a combination of forecast accuracy, administrative and management response, and the resulting affect among the general public. First, we see that the forecasts were accurate in terms of the magnitude and direction of the storm. I have been astonished how accurate weather forecasts…
iLead: Steve Jobs’ most important innovation yet
Everyone who uses a computer surely knows by now that Steve Jobs’ health has finally prompted him and Apple to publicly announce his resignation from the CEO’s office. I say publicly, because observing Apple’s recent performance leads me to believe that they must have been preparing, and relying on, the next set of leaders for…
A ‘Snowball’ of Disinformation [via @SSPPjournal]
Are we becoming poorer? That’s the question that comes to mind after reading an opinion published in SSPP today. This is the first set of economic crises I’m living through as an adult, so I have found these types of pieces (where the irreversible decline of America and the current generation is predicted) perplexing. I…
When you want wine, just draw the water
Reading the Bible, we are sometimes separated from the often truly ridiculous things Jesus did and asked of His disciples. Often, to show reverence, we more politely call his methods “unorthodox” or out-of-the-box, but most of the time “ridiculous” is the correct word. Maybe the religious among us would like to say that Jesus only…