Dreams – Page 7 – Rich's Ride

Facts Or Truth?

“Facts are the enemy of truth!” So said Don Quixote de la Mancha. And you might wonder about the judgment of someone who seeks wisdom from a fictional dreamer who imagined himself to be a knight and thought windmills were enemies to be vanquished. Don Quixote may have been mad, but he saw in his […]

Two Ways to Grow The Circle

How do we get folks to join the circle? We want to build our community, enlist folks in our cause. Makes sense, if we truly believe in what we’re doing. Seems like there are two ways to go. We can scare ’em. The others are coming after us, and you’d better grab your guns, send your […]

Waiting For The Guy In Charge

“Who organized all of this?” I was describing RICH’S RIDE to a new group of guys and one man asked who set it all up. “I mean, who figured it all out and put it together?” “Well, we did. Becky and I at first, and then a few friends. The circle grew as people caught […]

How To Escape A Drive-By Life

Teachers fight the temptation of a mile wide and an inch deep. We try to teach a curriculum that’s so broad, there’s no time for students to stop and think deeply. It becomes all about shortcuts and speed and pass the test and on to the next topic because we have to get it all covered. And […]

Whose Dream Will You Follow?

I absolutely believe we’re wired to follow big dreams. However, I don’t buy the sappy notion “if you believe it you can achieve it.” I’ve said before that Jiminy Cricket’s advice to Pinocchio to wish upon a star made for a great song, but I’m not seeking wisdom from a bug. In Genesis 12, Abram […]

I Don’t Care?

Last week a friend published a poem. He prefaced it with a disclaimer: “I don’t care whether you like it or not.” I thought it sort of sad that he felt the need to include that statement. Frankly, I didn’t believe him. We don’t write or paint or do any sort of art to please […]

Let Go

“No, really…how do you stop worrying?” That’s basically the response when I offered a one-trick answer to an impossible question. “That dream stuff sounds all good and everything, but what happens in the REAL world?” Well, I don’t think following Jesus is idealistic or unrealistic. I do believe He offered practical, real-world guidance, but that […]

Remember The Dream

“How do you stop worrying?” Yeah, right. I’ll just toss out the magic answer, because I never get trapped in my own downward spiral of worry. Thankfully, the question came at the end of our session. I was literally saved by the bell, but I spent good part of the next week wondering. What’s the […]

It’s Only One Life

How much difference can you make by impacting a single life? If you or I encountered Amber in August 2013, perhaps we would have turned away. At that point she felt completely trapped in addiction and saw no way forward. She couldn’t care for her son and had no idea how she’d deal with her […]

Grateful When You Don’t Feel It

I’m really grateful for this RICH’S RIDE thing I get to do. Frankly, sometimes I can’t imagine where I’d be without it. Since I wrote last week about Driving Without Hitting Stuff I’ve been thinking about how I don’t think Jesus cares much about darkness. I mean, He does in the sense that He doesn’t want […]

Starting…And Starting Again

Jesus said some inconvenient stuff. My friend Liz talks about pick-n-choosers, folks like me who occasionally ignore the less warm and fuzzy parts of Jesus’ teaching. When we confront issues of social justice, I suspect we all have to be aware of biases that lead us to pick-n-choose. As I’ve worked with the men at […]

What If One Guy Just Did Something?

I love it when someone sees something that needs doing and does it. Louis Gray is a self-described technology geek. He works for Google and writes a blog about early-adopter tech stuff. Last month he decided to combine his love of gadgets with his desire to challenge himself and support a cause that matters to him. I […]

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