Living the Dream
We have a friend in ministry who, when her parents found out she was going into college ministry, was forced to move out of their house and cut off from all financial support.
And that turned a giant spotlight onto the contrast with our families. Continue reading “Thankful Thursday: Family Support.”
One time I gave our entire support spiel to another family’s dog.
Ok, not really, but he was the only one home, and though he seemed more interested in sniffing my crotch than Continue reading “About Pets, Empty Garages, and the Need to Call Ahead.”
I put a custom-coded “most popular posts” widget in the sidebar of this site, but it’s lying to you. It says most popular, but what it means is “most commented on” as that’s the metric it is really judging by.
Thanks to Google analytics, I can tell you which posts are Continue reading “October’s Top 5.”
I can’t wait until my kids are old enough for me to effectively “back in my day” them–the line all parents and grandparents are adept at using to contrast how good “kids these days” have it. I’ve got the line all worked out, thanks to a loophole in my living conditions during the first two months of marriage. Continue reading “About the single-wide trailer with no running water.”
I’ve been working at Starbucks now for a month, and I have noticed something that I wish I had communicated to my students back when i worked with Campus Crusade. It’s a simple, three-step guide on how to be better and more impressive than 90% of the working world. Are you ready for it?
The first and last step you might have guessed, and they’ll probably get you to the 75th percentile. But that second step, no lie, will push you right over into employee of the month category. Yeah, it wil require you to act as though you are enjoying yourself, but the funny thing is that after acting like it for a few minutes, you find yourself actually enjoying yourself.
Try it. You might like it.