This week I’ve been writing about efficiency in the context of firefighting. Last time I talked about efficient stewardship and left you with a question: Is “responsible” stewardship always efficient? I wonder about this as I consider the resources required to support RICH’S RIDE. I ask sponsors to underwrite our costs, I ask you to offer […]
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Can Responsible Be Inefficient?
Yesterday I commented about efficient and inefficient in the context of firefighting. I sense that perhaps the firefighters demonstrate skill and competence with their efficient use of resources, and they display their humanity in their inefficient use of resources. Does that make sense? This morning I cranked my bike north of town. I could see […]
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Happy Monday! The nearby wildfire got me thinking about today’s word-of-the-week… EFFICIENT Firefighting brings a strange mixture of efficient and inefficient. Huge tanker planes drop chemical retardant, strategically creating barriers and lines designed to constrain the fire. One plane does work that couldn’t be accomplished by dozens of ground crews. It’s an efficient, big-picture way […]
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Perhaps you’ve heard about the wildfires raging across the western US. One of the worst, the High Park Fire, has devoured more than 52,000 acres (81 sq. miles) of pristine, tinder-dry forest lands within a dozen miles of my hometown of Fort Collins, Colorado. Friends are displaced from homes that may not exist when they return. […]
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The following story is true—you can’t make up this kind of stuff. I’ve obscured details where possible. Some friends are organizing a community-wide event as a centralized way to address unmet needs in our area. The basic idea is to provide medical care, food, access to community services, shoes, eyeglasses, entertainment, and whatever else they […]
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Are there situations or people you avoid because they violate “God’s rules”? Cornelius wasn’t one of the popular kids. Nobody wanted to sit at his table. Imagine the shock when he invited the most popular kid to eat with him. Cornelius wasn’t a Jew; worse than that, he was a high-ranking officer in the occupying […]
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Happy Monday! A fact captured in an image inspires today’s word-of-the-week… INCONCEIVABLE! In a world of such abundance, how can this be true? This is a good week to ask God to help the victims of this human tragedy. It’s also a good week to resolve to do what I can, where I am, with […]
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Happy Monday! A fact captured in an image inspires today’s word-of-the-week… INCONCEIVABLE! In a world of such abundance, how can this be true? This is a good week to ask God to help the victims of this human tragedy. It’s also a good week to resolve to do what I can, where I am, with […]
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(This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, RICH’S RIDE: A journey of hope and dreams. You can check out previous posts here.) # # # # # Are you doing? Or are you trying to get done? There’s a saying among writers that nearly everyone likes having written but few actually enjoy writing. Surveys […]
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(This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, RICH’S RIDE: A journey of hope and dreams. You can check out previous posts here.) # # # # # Are you doing? Or are you trying to get done? There’s a saying among writers that nearly everyone likes having written but few actually enjoy writing. Surveys […]
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I think God’s kingdom must work more like farming than manufacturing. As I write about the experience of RICH’S RIDE I’m struck by how frequently Jesus talked about planting. This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the […]
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You missed a deadline. You didn’t complete the assignment. The blog post didn’t get finished. Do you offer a litany of reasons/excuses to explain it away? Do you fake the adult equivalent of “the dog ate my homework”? Do you waste more time feeling guilty? Or do you just admit you messed up, apologize, and move […]
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