Living the Dream
Once upon a time (starting in 2010 and running for a little over a year) Ben put in a lot of hours on a blog named “Assume The Best.”
It chronicled his life as a full-time staff member of Campus Crusade for Christ, attempting to make light of and encourage specifically around the process of raising financial support.
We had left staff at that point, and this writing is an interesting look into his process of grieving that loss, with an eye toward “becoming a writer.”
Here, in the order they were released, are those posts.
Ever write a post, and wish that it could stay up for a while, because it’s pretty awesome?
I do. And then the force of time trods on, keeping you from allowing great posts to shine.
Until you get so busy months later that you have to give it a rest and link to old posts. And simultaneously you give lots of stuff away for free on your blog. Or maybe that’s just me.
Click here for one of my favorite posts ever on ATB.
Comment on this one and that one for two chances to win John G Miller’s books!
When I was in elementary school, all of my classmates would talk when the teacher had her back to the class, and none of them ever got caught. They’d whisper entire 3rd-grade cootie sonnets between the time she turned away from them to write something on the board and the moment she turned back to ask a question.
Me? I couldn’t shake my head quietly in the 3rd grade. Continue reading “What got your name on the board with checkmarks?”
We in the Meredith* household are not runners. My wife is big on sports like volleyball that require motion in bursts as opposed to stretches. The most athletic thing I do these days is stand up for 8 hours at a time selling the world’s finest coffees and/or communication devices (but not at the same time). We as a family don’t have anything against marathons, 5Ks, or stickers on the Continue reading “Do you run for fun? Because we don’t. Ever.”
I have to tell you, I am seriously impressed with John G. Miller. He’s the absolute real deal. I asked him if he’d lend an impartial ear to help me judge which tweets and comments deserved being in contention for winning his latest book. He agreed.
And then when looking over the list of entries, he decided that everyone wins.
That’s right, if you commented on last Monday’s post, John G. Miller will be sending you a free book! Some of you will be getting QBQ, some will be getting Flipping the Switch, and some will be getting Outstanding!–at his discretion.
And because that still leaves me with some books to give away, I am going to send my copies to Clay Griffin (one of the only folks to tweet about the contest!) because he’s using the books in a small group at his church.
So, the next step is to email me your mailing address if you are one of the 11 people who commented on my post last week. If you didn’t comment on that post, but did tweet about the contest (I think there was one person other than Clay), go ahead and email me your address also. We’ll take good care of you. (In case the link above doesn’t work, the email is holler@benandjacq.com)
Thanks to John G. Miller for making me look so good, and to all of you for participating!
Wondering if you are the only person who reads the groundbreaking content at ATB? You aren’t. Go ahead and forward a post to your friends just to make sure, though.
(the below info does not count feed subscribers.)
January totals!
951 Visits from 97 countries.
469 Unique visitors.
2173 Pageviews!
Top Content (not counting the giveaway post):
5: Don’t forget to turn on Jesus. (don’t skip the comments)
4: The walk to the mailbox.
3: Keeping in touch with people.
2: Missionaries should send impersonal prayer letters.and the most viewed post at ATB in January?
1: A shoutout to my friends Clyde and Jennifer!