2010
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Boundless Summer Challenge – Task 9
Jul 21
Task 9 of the Boundless Summer Challenge: a random act of kindness. I surprised my family with dinner out for no reason at all. They kept asking what the occasion was.
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Patience
May 17
Camping with 2,000 Boy Scouts tests anyone’s patience. My first instinct when a Scout breaks a rule is to yell. It took me years, and one lost friendship, to learn better.
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Trust Issues
May 10
I’ll trust a stranger to hold my safety line on a rock, but not to drive me to a meeting. With all my trouble trusting people, it’s a wonder I can place my faith in God — yet He’s the one I can always count on.
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Work Ethic
Apr 28
Our Scout bridge project started with a 20-person crew; by afternoon six of us were working while 45 people stood around watching. A lesson in work ethic, and in working for Christ on behalf of the Scouts, not just for them.
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Bridge to Somewhere
Apr 26
Three Scout leaders, none of them talking to the others, turned a two-hour trail project into six hours and a footbridge. Marketing does the same thing when it sends conflicting messages to too many audiences at once.
2008
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Three Pillars
Aug 20
When I need to escape, I retreat in my mind to a garden with three marble pillars. Asked to put my values on paper, I’ve used them as the categories of my value system: nature, life and fun.
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Laundry Day
Jul 30
I set aside Sundays as a ‘Life Laundry Day’: a big breakfast, church, clearing my desk, the actual laundry, and the computer off. It works at the office, too.