One of the concepts my mind has run to recently is a daily list of “everything I need to think about today” as something to read every morning. My mind makes it a list a mile long and detracts from actually doing anything. The key to planning is to be more efficient not just to… Continue reading Daily Summaries: A new level of randomness: 1: It is a start

1 Peter 1:17-21 Revised Standard Version 17 And if you invoke as Father him who judges each one impartially according to his deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile. 18 You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers, not with perishable things such as silver… Continue reading 1 Peter Lesson 5 – 1:17-21 – Part 1 – Holy Fear

Job 3:7 That Night – May it be Childless (barren),                 May no joyful sons permeate it.   I waffled on this one. I am on Verse 9 of chapter 7 today and I flashed back to the early days of the process when I waffled on big words and many concepts and I still… Continue reading Job 23: Study 16: 3:7 – Joyful Songs

Job 3:6  Learning to Ask That night – May blackness take it, May it not rejoice among the days of the year, May it not appear in any of its months. I goofed here by hitting a 6 when I meant to hit a 5, and I did 7 before 6. Does that even make… Continue reading Job 22: Study 15: 3:6 – Ask

One of the phrases I dislike about this book is buried in the title of this net Chapter: The Executive Joy of Pleasantly Productive Leadership. Pleasantly productive seems to me to be like the luke warm water Christ spits out. Be hot, be cold, but do not be waffling between the two. Pleasantly is a… Continue reading Life Master 20: Patterns, Chapters, and … Joyfully Thankful

As many of you know I used to be an Astros fan and write about the Astros all the time, trying to weave good in amongst the “mundane”. I found it fascinating, but not everyone likes baseball or the Astros, or at least not enough to read about them every day. The real topic for… Continue reading Random XI – Building with Blocks

One of the impressions I get when studying history is that the authors tend to see everything in terms of the advance of Western Civilization, as if nothing else matters. No one puts much thought into how people covered the earth long before Europeans came to America, and that they came looking for a short… Continue reading Life Master 19: Patterns, Chapters, and … God is Joy

1 Peter 1:13-16 – Revised Standard Version 13 Therefore gird up your minds, be sober, set your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, 15 but as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves… Continue reading 1 Peter Lesson 4 – 1:13-16 – Be Holy

The 55th Superbowl was played last night. As we discussed the “big game”, I recalled how I used to want to watch the game. Then for a brief point in time (part of one day), I wanted to hear the commercials. I found that I could not watch the game at a party talking to… Continue reading Job 21: Study 14: 3:5 – Superbowl Party

Then Job spoke out saying:                 If indeed my anguish could be weighed,                                 Placed with all my calamity on the scales, They would out weight the sad of the seas,                 No wonder my words have been impetuous. For the barbs of the Almighty have pierced me,                 My spirit drinks in their poison,… Continue reading J25: Job 6 – The Amalgamation