Quote of the Day: youth group

Ok, it’s still early… 9:52 a.m. to be exact. But the quote of the day has already happened. This came from my friend who will be arriving in Beijing tomorrow afternoon:

“I gotta get my whole family to the airport first the in the morning. That’s like trying to move a youth group.“

He has 4 kids.

Mess and Clutter

I’ve always felt bad for my lack of organizational skills. It’s an odd catch-22 for me because i can’t focus and get any work done until my desk is clean and orderly, but within a matter of minutes it’ll be a complete disaster again. Stacks of books and papers and cords all litter my desk [...]

Mark of Humility

Humility means keeping our mouths shut long enough so that the poor and oppressed can speak.
Oscar Muriu
Nairobi, Kenya

People are Wonderful

“Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.”
- Desmond Tutu

Vientiane, Laos.

Traveling and Reflecting

(i wrote this a few days ago on the way to Taiyuan)
From the train station waiting room i turn on my iPod and use the soft music as a soundtrack to watch the people walk by. In my minds eye i tell myself their stories. Some are hard-working farmers, some are businessmen, some are students, [...]

Open Your Eyes

All people dream, but not equally.
Those who dream by night,
in the dusty recesses of their minds,
wake in the day to find that it was vanity.
But the dreamers of the day are dangerous,
for they may act their dreams with open eyes
to make it possible.

T.E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
I think we have some dreamers among [...]

Television and Stars

Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would create new religions overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead, the stars come out every night and we [...]

Quotation Tuesday

In the past couple of days i’ve finished two books that have been absolutely remarkable. Here are few of my favorite lines:

Every day you and i are making decisions that help construct one kind of world or another. Are we co-opted by the faddish worldviews of our age, or are we helping to create a [...]

Do you like to work or play?

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others [...]

Donald Miller prays

Donald Miller is the author of several books on christian spirituality such as: Blue Like Jazz, Searching For God Knows What, To Own A Dragon, etc.
Donald was asked to do the benediction prayer and the Democratic National Convention on Monday night. Simply put, the prayer was beautiful and purposeful. I’m not sure what [...]