My wife is a more than just a totally hot babe, she is also an amazing Mother. We spent time driving in the van today and I had the kids take turns saying why they think their Mom is so great. Their answers were great, but they barely scratched the surface explaining the many ways my wife is a Mother worthy of admiration and honor. I love you Molly.
Our kids were really wanting a donut, so we obliged. I really don't like sweets very much, but that Chocolate Kreme really hit the spot. The second photo is of Elijah at his Little League "Pitch, Hit, and Run" competition. Yeah, that's the "Run" part. See all my photography.
I'm really sick at the moment (102 temp) and I thought a lots-o-links post would be therapeutic. And away we go.
A Cubs website: Just One Bad Century.
Really appreciate Jeremy Pryor making some videos about a discipleship strategy called The Story-Formed Life. First video. Second video. More to come.
JD Greear: Multi-Site = Multi-Opportunity.
From The Economist: Nomads at Last: Wireless communication is changing the way people work, live, love and relate to places—and each other.
The Empire Strikes Barack...
Gavin DeGraw's new album comes out tomorrow, I think. I thought Chariot was really fun pop music with a fairly unique sound. Watch the first video from In Love With a Girl.
Portishead's "Machine Gun" = very wow. I know some of you won't like it, but that's your problem. I'm looking forward to picking up their first new album since 1997, Third. You can hear more at Last.fm.
There are several clips of Portishead's new stuff, but none are great quality video. So to introduce you to Portishead's trip-hoppy goodness, here's "Roads" from a live 2006 show...
"Go Cubs Go!" is the song played at Wrigley Field after a win. My kids and I sing along. Here's a fan video...
You heard me. McDonalds is Chick-fil-A for notherners who can't get Chick-fil-A's delectable chicken sandwich up here. You should try the new Southern Style Chicken Sandwich at Micky D's, or the chicken biscuit in the morning. It's not Chick-fil-A, but it's the closest thing we've got. And it's pretty doggone good.
As I do a lot of thinking on evangelism this year, Jonathan Dodson has put up a post on gas buy-downs (etc) that I find very thought-provoking and helpful. Go read it.
Can't neglect introducing (or reintroducing) you to Taylor Mali this National Poetry Month.
I enjoy the poetry of Czeslaw Milosz (Wikipedia, Poets.org), winner of the Nobel Prize in 1980. I think you will too. Milosz died in 2004.
Forget
Forget the suffering
You caused others.
Forget the suffering
Others caused you.
The waters run and run,
Springs sparkle and are done,
You walk the earth you are forgetting.
Sometimes you hear a distant refrain.
What does it mean, you ask, who is singing?
A childlike sun grows warm.
A grandson and a great-grandson are born.
You are led by the hand once again.
The names of the rivers remain with you.
How endless those rivers seem!
Your fields lie fallow,
The city towers are not as they were.
You stand at the threshold mute.Encounter
We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn.
A red wing rose in the darkness.
And suddenly a hare ran across the road.
One of us pointed to it with his hand.
That was long ago.Today neither of them is alive,
Not the hare, nor the man who made the gesture.
O my love, where are they, where are they going
The flash of a hand, streak of movement, rustle of pebbles.
I ask not out of sorrow, but in wonder.
I'm on Twitter now. Put it off for many months but am enjoying it so far. Some "essential tools," "twitter links," and "benefits." Twitter in plain English.
I've opened an Amazon bookstore for my blog. I'm building up all my recommended books there. When you buy through it I get something back.
Bob Franquiz: 10 things churches could learn from Disney.
Tim Chester: When Gideon gave a seminar on church planting.
Audio/Video of the Multi-Site Exposed conference in Seattle.
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