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.
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.”
I went to Central Asia to do ministry because I wanted to be able to tell people I went to Central Asia to do ministry.
If I had to give a percentage regarding my motivation, I’d say 60% wanting to Continue reading “The Lie of Perfect Motives.”