Tag: beauty
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Tanzania Day 2: Getting Settled
This morning at 6:15am (Tanzania time…which is 9:15pm Owatonna time) I sent my family a text: “Tanzania has roosters.” I know this because after a solid 24 hours of travel, I wasn’t planning on getting up at 6:15am. The roosters, however, had other ideas. But at that time of the morning there were things I…
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Chicano Park
On Tuesday, our friend and colleague, Pastor Manuel Retamoza, took Lori and me to spend time at Chicano Park, in San Diego. Following World War II, the interstate freeway system was built, and I-5, running up and down the California coast, cut through a Latino neighborhood in San Diego. Homes and neighborhoods were destroyed. To…
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Soaking in Sunshine
A big chunk of the day today was spent outside, doing a home repair project. I’ll be honest: I don’t love doing home repair projects. And I really hadn’t been looking forward to today’s project. It involved digging and pouring concrete. So there’s that. But I went out around 7:30am and got started. At one…
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Beauty Surrounds Us
Sabbatical Day 11 Lori and I are spending the week on Minnesota’s North Shore, about 25 minutes up Highway 61 from Two Harbors. It’s been a good week. We’ve had opportunities to sit and stare at Lake Superior, to read, to write, and to take hikes through state parks. (Side note: The week after Memorial…
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Created Fresh
And God said, “it is good.” It is good. It is amazingly, astonishingly, good. And we are the beneficiaries of this goodness. The scripture tells us that there is an author, a creator, and that the creator is good. The creator is the source of all things good. The Hebrew word for God is Elohim…Elohim…
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We are Starting with Why
Simon Sinek, in his book Start With Why, argues that organizations that are successful and grow do so because they know, understand and live their “why.” (It’s a fantastic book, by the way. You can watch him doing an overview of the book on his TEDx talk on YouTube here) Trinity is preparing to launch…
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Mission Jamaica: Day 6
One of the really cool things about an experience like Mission Jamaica is the opportunity to immerse yourself in the culture and get to know people. And with the connections of folks like Jeff Peterson, the MJ director, it makes it really fun as well. Today, after we spent some time hanging out around…