Here are some of the better things I've read lately on the web...
Gossip Affects Your Spiritual Waistline
Why Staying Married Is A Good Idea
Ray Ortland's final letter to his family
Some Benefits of Life Without Television
Why John Piper doesn't have a television and rarely goes to movies
Listening - Matthew Perryman Jones, Matt Kearney, Joshua Radin, Stephen Roach
Using - evernote, twitterfox, xmarks, magellan maestro, burner
As I prepare for some talks on "The Courage to Be Real" I keep coming back to this quote from "The Silver Chair."
“If you are thirsty, you may drink.”
[...] For a second she stared here and there, wondering who had spoken. Then the voice said again, “If you are thirsty, come and drink,” [...] [she] realised that it was the lion speaking. [...] [T]he voice was not like a man’s. It was deeper, wilder, and stronger; a sort of heavy, golden voice. It did not make her any less frightened than she had been before, but it made her frightened in rather a different way.
“Are you not thirsty?” said the lion.
“I’m dying of thirst,” said Jill.
“Then drink,” said the lion.
“May I – could I – would you mind going away while I do?” said Jill.
The Lion answered this only by a look and a very low growl. And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realised that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.
The delicious rippling noise of the stream was driving her nearly frantic.
“Will you promise not to – do anything to me, if I do come?” said Jill.
“I make no promise,” said the Lion.
Jill was so thirsty now that, without noticing it, she had come a step nearer.
“Do you eat girls?” she said.
“I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms,” said the Lion. It didn’t say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.
“I daren’t come and drink,” said Jill.
“Then you will die of thirst,” said the Lion.
“Oh dear!” said Jill, coming another step nearer. “I suppose I must go and look for another stream then.”
“There is no other stream,” said the Lion.
- “The Silver Chair” by C. S. Lewis
Here is some truth from Seth Godin that I've been realizing more and more:
First rule of decision making: More time does not create better decisions.
In fact, it usually decreases the quality of the decision.
More information may help. More time without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.
Deciding now frees up your most valuable asset, time, so you can go work on something else. What happens if, starting today, you make every decision as soon as you have a reasonable amount of data?
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It's great to be with my family! After 17 days away I was starting to go into withdrawal! It was so good to see Rebecca at the airport - she is so beautiful to me! It's amazing how capably and happily she handled our children without me! I owe her big time!
I'm now trying to get my internal clock back on Canada track - not much luck so far! I slept about 4 hours yesterday - didn't eat much supper then woke up and had a massive breakfast! The kids loved the gifts I picked up for them. Mareesa has not taken off the Indian dress I gave her and Aiden and Jesse have been wearing their soccer jerseys (Ronaldinho and Ibrahimovic) every day - we've been watching youtube highlights to acquaint them with the names on their shirts.
Rebecca and I are scrambling today to get ready to fly to Regina tomorrow for the weekend celebration of our 20 year High School Reunion. It will be great to see some people that we haven't for 20 years! Sunday I'll speak at the morning service and then we will rush home to rescue our sister's from our 4 children! Thanks in advance to Malcolm/Suzanne and Heather and Angela for teaming up to make this weekend possible! Rebecca and I will be praying for you!
I've uploaded some photo's and videos of my trip here and here. I'll get some more up next week.
Here's one I snapped in the Bangkok airport on the way home.
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