Entries from June 2009

June 27, 2009

The Details

Owning a camera, you anticipate “once in a lifetime” events and visual phenomena, waiting for those perfect shots. One of the things I’ve learned recently is that it’s the details that make up your story. We are presented with countless opportunities for memorable moments every day. The shame is that we often overlook those while [...]

June 22, 2009

Free Download: Travel Lists

You’re 30 minutes on your way out of town for a business trip or a family vacation when it hits you, you forgot the ______! That’s when the profanities start popping up in your head like bubbles in a bubble bath. Having lived entire months of my life on the road, I am familiar with [...]

June 20, 2009

Q-Trip: Alabama/Southern Georgia

Jacki and I made our way down through Alabama to Gulf Shores to connect with a few core partners, meet up with some family, and spend a day on the beach. After getting torched by the sun and spending a day recovering, we headed on over to Albany, Ga to meet up with Joel Diaz [...]

June 12, 2009

School Teachers Needed

Most missionaries return home not because of inadequate biblical training, but because of problems within their family. Growing up as a missionary kid, I know of plenty of families that had to return home or were severely crippled in their ministry, because their kids never made the transition onto the field. The Family Learning Center [...]

June 10, 2009

Slowing Down: Good night, Good morning

Our last post with a few ideas on slowing your life down got major attention on the e-letter, so we decided to keep the list going with three more practical ways we try to slow down our lives (by the way, if you’d like to get the Q-nection in your inbox, just click that button [...]

June 2, 2009

Slowing Things Down: A Few Ideas

Our last post talked about the necessity of slowing things down, because your life is in the details. If you just blur past them, you blur past your life. At the end, I promised you a few of my favorite ways to slow down my life so that I could engage the moment. Here’s a [...]