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When It Rains It Pours (Gettin’ Good And Salty With Gracedrops!)
"When it rains it pours." Know it? Yep, the Morton Salt weather idiom that says when things go wrong, it seems a lot of things go wrong at the same time. Yuk how it works out that way sometimes. Here's my positive silver lining spin for today on getting drenched:...
Paul If By Land. Jacques If By Sea.
Our church has spent the past year and a half wading through the Book of Acts. Verse by verse, our pastors have taken us through the story of the birth, growth and expansion of the Christian church. Luke penned the story as a sequel to his Gospel. It follows Peter's...
How To Reach The Calling Of Your Rock Star Life
So you know I'm a huge fan of Brene Brown. She writes this message about vulnerability, and how it's ok. She's spent a career focused on figuring out how this one word, vulnerability, will fix humanity. She found her calling and poured her heart out in a TED video. It...
Organizing Big Rocks And Variables
Time is the limiting factor for all of us at some point in determining how much we have the capacity to accomplish. I have a couple of sparky ideas that I'm tossing around in my head about big rocks and variables. Big rocks. Yep, those things we are declaring to be...
How Sound Feedback Connects Anonymity And Accountability
If you've ever read through the contents of a suggestion box you often find that frank and open feedback you may be looking for as a business owner or manager. They're popular at restaurants and in retail for that very reason. Suggestions may be collected via a...
Why We Should Be Excited To Carry Each Other’s Burdens
"Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." Galatians 6:2 Just reading that verse doesn't sound like too much fun. It sounds like the pure physics of work combined with getting lost in the ink cloud of a squid. To bear? Like in carry, tote, lug or...