Clever tag lines and crafty marketing

Clever Church billboard
Yesterday morning while running. This is one of our choices.

 

Up next is exploring the notion that one of the two Churches near us could become our new Church. Hope to check out one of them this morning.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our spiritual health. To leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s career health website, click here.

 

Transparency can be incredibly easy

Business meeting notes
Notes from yesterday’s (a Sunday) meeting.

 

Transparency can be incredibly easy, whether you want it to be or not.

i want it to be.

Notes from yesterday’s meeting, posted publicly for posterity.

The Internet ensures there are no secrets.

Do the right things for the right reasons, and never do anything you wouldn’t want to be public knowledge.

Simple prayer: Live your life so that if anyone ever said anything bad about you, no one would believe it.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our spiritual health. To leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s career health website, click here.

 

Make good use of your suffering

Old family photographs
Random photo yesterday before removing photos for painting to begin this week.

 

Make good use of your suffering.

Otherwise, we see suffering as a loss.

i do not have any memories of life lessons passed on from my dad (bottom wall photo, on drums) of Grandfather (top wall photo, second from right).

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our spiritual health. To leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s career health website, click here.

 

Caught up in who i wasn’t

Millenia Surgery Center
Yesterday morning at 9am, checking in for his (a 15-year old) 10th colonoscopy.

 

i was so caught up in who i wasn’t.

i remember having those thoughts on a regular basis for a long time – most of my life.

We see what we want to see.

Now i focus on the miracles God provides. Most of them are small, and often disguised as insignificant. But they aren’t insignificant. They are oxygen.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our spiritual health. To leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s career health website, click here.

 

When do we surrender and let go?

Nursing Home resident room
A bed, a chair, a TV, a bathroom, a window, and a curtain for a wall. Three meals each day, 24-hour nursing care.

 

Most people wait for someone else to go first.

Walked over to visit with the 90-year old in the adjacent Nursing Home.

Just me and Johnny.

Johnny’s roommate was out, so we had privacy to do whatever we wanted.

Had intended to initiate “deep conversation”, but after arriving, i thought, “This will be so predictable and it has never worked.”

Instead, i just sat for two hours and watched the Clemson (#1) versus Oklahoma (#4) College Football semi-final playoff game. i added a lot of commentary (which is uncommon for me) and we had a very good time.

i wondered if he had hoped i would have gone with deep conversation.

i’ll never know.

i’ve surrendered and live with this being ok.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our spiritual health. To leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s career health website, click here.