What do you think about at 3:17 am? You know what I mean, when you’re exhausted and you need to sleep but you can’t sleep because your brain’s stuck in overdrive and the clock by the bed has been stuck on the same time forever. What do you think about? Will I get everything completed before we […]
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Happy Monday! A simple question prompts today’s word-of-the-week… NEED “How do you know the people you help really need it?” I’ll bet everyone who works with any sort of compassion or humanitarian effort has heard that question. It’s valid. People scam the system, look for a free ride. No question about it. If you become […]
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If you’ve read Relentless Grace you might appreciate knowing that today’s the tenth anniversary of the rather unlikely and romantic event that ended the book. (If you, and everyone you know and love, haven’t read the story, you can click here to correct that problem immediately.) It’s clearly been the best ten years of my […]
Continue readingThe Good Samaritan’s Return On Investment
This week I’ve been writing over at Bouncing Back 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 […]
Continue readingThe Good Samaritan’s Return On Investment
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 […]
Continue readingCan 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 […]
Continue readingHe Wasn’t One Of The Popular Kids
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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