Archive for December, 2008

Hope… let’s keep it alive

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

A friend of mine looked at me one day not long ago as I dragged in my daily five or six pounds of mail and said, “You and your media.” He was referring to my daily dose of magazines and newsletters that flood into my “snail” mailbox everyday– a heaping helping that at one time, required me to “make time” to get through it all.

But– as I often say and people often hear but don’t really hear AND I find myself saying more these days– “The simple truths are the greatest truths and things need to be a lot more simple.”

So, I have considerably cut down on the unending flood of literature that I used to think I needed to get through a week, month, quarter– whatever. And I look a lot more at what’s around me and at the simple things we often overlook. Let’s look at one very simple thing now. (more…)

Gathering up the fragments

Monday, December 1st, 2008

An interesting email arrived in my in box today. It’s from Roy Williams, “The Wizard of Ads.” In it, he briefly tells the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 with five loaves and two small fishes. It’s a story of which most of us are familiar. But the part that Roy focuses on is the quote attributed to Jesus after the meal; “Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.”

Perhaps, because it’s a Monday, or perhaps because we are just coming off a big holiday weekend spent with friends and family that this email so resonated with me. As Roy further writes, “Consider. This was a person of unlimited resources, a man who could create abundance from nothingness, yet he said to his followers, “Gather up the fragments.””

Have you ever stopped to “gather up the fragments” of your life? (more…)