Living the Dream
“So, I’m supposed to hold him, and keep him relatively quiet while we stand up in front of the whole church?”
“Yes”
“We’re all aware that he’s two, right?”
That’s an approximation of the conversation that went down before Continue reading “The Real Story of Our Joining the Church. (part 1)”
Everything seems more authoritative when an expressive man with dreadlocks says it.
Favorite line?
This is us: Heap up your good deeds.
Chant.
Pray.
Meditate.
All of that of course is spraying cologne on a corpse. Or you could choose to ignore it, as if something don’t stink.
Great stuff. Hat tip to Bobby for linking to this on twitter.
I started this story last week.
When I left off from telling the story, I had established LB (my 2.5-year-old) as having gotten the attention of everybody in the room. Soon afterwards, Corey (our pastor) called us forward to officially take our membership vows.
I think that’s what we ended up doing, but looking back Continue reading “Things that weren’t in the “new parents” brochure: Joining a Church.”
The one thing that has surprised me in making the transition from vocational ministry to “secular” work has been how easy it is to stand out from the crowd in terms of being a good employee. I came up with a 3-step process to guarantee that you end up in the top 10 percent.
It was probably when I offered to drop by her house with a cowboy hat that she figured out something was up. But to be honest, it was probably earlier than that.
We were at a rodeo Continue reading “5 Years and 9 Months to the day.”