Happy Monday! Today we begin week 6 of Rich’s Ride. Here’s an unusual word-of-the-week… DAILY …as in “daily bread.” We’ve tried everything to plan ahead even a few days, but we’re discovering that this project seems to unfold one day at a time. Each time we think we have a handle on the next few days, […]
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Happy Monday. Greetings from Burlington, Iowa, where I’m struggling to find today’s word-of-the-week… PATIENCE I’ve gotten behind schedule on Rich’s Ride. No excuses—for a lot of reasons I’m about twenty miles behind where I need to be, and almost sixty miles behind where I’d hoped to be, to reach my 1500 mile goal. I know, you’re […]
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Happy Monday! We’re beginning week #3 of Rich’s Ride. Becky and I need to work on today’s word-of-the-week… PERSEVERE Many aspects of this project are tougher than we imagined. Hotels, being away from home, so many moving parts that demolish any sort of predictability. At times like this, we must persevere. I think we’re learning […]
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Happy Monday. Week two on the road with Rich’s Ride, and we’re immersed in the word-of-the-week… CONTINUE When you’re in the middle of an adventure, sometimes you just need to continue. The excitement of beginning has faded, the conclusion’s far off. You didn’t think much about the time in the middle when you planned and […]
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Happy Monday! I invite you to share today’s word-of-the-week… BLASTOFF The day’s finally arrived. This morning at 9am (CT) we’ll depart from Lake Itasca State Park on our 1500-mile odyssey. It’s time for blastoff of this crazy dream. I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who’s joined the circle and made this day possible. My wife Becky […]
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Happy Monday! This is a big week for us, a good time for this word-of-the-week… ABANDON Abandon can mean to withdraw or run away—that’s not what I’m thinking about. I’m thinking of approaching life with reckless abandon, a sense of excitement and exuberance. Living life “all-in”—doing whatever I do with abandon. That’s not my natural […]
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Happy Monday! Today I have a video that demonstrates our word-of-the-week … WISDOM Dick Foth is one of the wisest men I know. He’s served as a campus pastor, college president, and head of an influential ministry in Washington, D.C. Dick has corporate CEO’s, senators and members of congress on speed dial. He’s a key figure at […]
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Happy Monday! I hope I can explain the meaning behind today’s word-of-the-week… EYE This weekend we spent a lot of time talking at our large church about RICH’S RIDE. It felt a bit like sitting in the eye of a storm. Becky, Monte, and I spoke briefly to four big groups of people. Excitement swirled […]
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Happy Monday! I don’t know about you, but I begin this new week in a very real battle with today’s word-of-the-week… TRUST Ever notice how much easier it is to talk about trust than it is to do it? I began thinking seriously about RICH’S RIDE in January. I thought about the logistical issues, the problems […]
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Happy Monday! Today I have the perfect Monday word-of-the-week… OPENING Last week I heard something that really struck me. I don’t have the exact words, but it was a statement attributed to C. S. Lewis that went something like this: When we stand before God, we will realize that all that’s happened is simply the […]
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Happy Monday! The sun’s rising on a new set of seven days. Today I’m caught in a word-of-the-week … TENSION When you pull on opposite ends of a rope, you create tension. Same thing with life. Tension’s mostly a good thing. In my experience, a lot of bad events occur when life gets out of […]
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Happy Monday! In my world, I need to begin this week with a renewed commitment. That’s because of my word-of-the-week… AUTOPILOT I feel like I need to apologize to you. A whole bunch of things got really busy during the past two weeks, most of them related to RICH’S RIDE. I realized over the weekend […]
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