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Each summer, the awesome CCC elders send my family and me off for a summer study break. We take off for a nice beach outpost, and undoubtedly have a lot of fun. But… I DO take my summer study break very seriously as a privilege to leverage and not abuse. I hit the beach around 6:30 a.m. each morning and read, think, pray, and write til about 3 in the afternoon. Then… the Scotts play. Heck, wouldn’t you? We’re at…

The past two weeks our guest speaker, Dan Crain, has reminded us through great personal stories and research, this idea of and the need to be a “good neighbor.” This is always good to be reminded of, especially for someone like me who thinks I already do it… only to find out I’m not as good as I thought I was at being a good neighbor. Being a friendly neighbor to my neighbors is easy, mainly because I like them.…

Most of you probably drive past the community I live in on your way to church Sunday mornings. There is nothing externally notable about our little slice of heaven, but on the inside… It is a vibrant, melting pot community richly, teeming with culture and diversity. Over the years I have met and become friends with people who live here from all over the world. There is Enego from Spain. He is a gentle, bear of a man with a…

We recently moved into a neighborhood that we absolutely adore. People take care of each other. They grab your mail while you are out of town, they call when you forget to put down the garage door, they have impromptu dinners, camp fires, romps on the trampoline, car washes, and slumber parties for the kids. They do things that happen in a Norman Rockwell painting. It’s how I remember my neighbors when I was growing up. We found it. We…

When my daughter, Morgan, was 2-3 years old, I put her to the test. It was the dreaded marshmallow test. You’ve probably heard of such tortuous parenting techniques. With a hidden video camera, we placed Morgan in a room all by herself. She was sitting in a little person’s chair at a little person’s table. On the table sat a beautiful piece of china with 5 marshmallows. I told my little red-headed monster, “Morgan, if you wait and DON’T eat…

Sherry has been purging our basement. For the past several weeks she has been filling up the trash bins and taking schhtufff to the garage in preparation for a big garage sale. Today is the day. Signs are up, and our driveway is lined with stuff we don’t want, but hope other people will pay money for. J It’s funny how this works. Eventually when there’s leftover schhtuff even garage sale scavengers don’t want, we’ll give it away to the…

I met with a savvy businessman this week. We had a power breakfast. I had watermelon, cantaloupe, and black coffee. He threw down two eggs, toast, kielbasa sausage and black coffee. It wasn’t so much about the food as it was the possibilities brought to the table. His energy and focus created an extremely attractive synergy I like. With no lack of vision, this high achiever sees a preferred future where intentional social engineering will lend itself to sustainable gospel…

Officially summer does not arrive until the day after my second-born turns 20… on June 21st. Did you follow that? However… in Atlanta, summer often comes well before it’s designated Northern Hemisphere solstice at 6:51 a.m. on the twenty-first day of the six month. Did you follow that? Bottom line: summer is here. On my day off, I love to soak in these warm southern days with an early cup of coffee while reading, thinking, and praying on the back…

All this week, at around 10 o’clock at night… I’ve found myself saying, “Idiots!” Sometimes the late night news is slow. A north Georgia good ‘ole boy got his homemade wheel barrow car stuck in I-285 traffic when the motor on said wheel barrow contraption couldn’t keep up with the speed demands of the big city. When the lead, breaking news story is such, you know it’s a slow news day. This week was different. On Monday night it was…

What a killer morning and afternoon. Whew. It’s just been one of those weeks. You too? ☺ And… I’m just getting information about the horrific tragedy of a Campbell High School student committing suicide because of bullying. My heart is sad. So many identities are being robbed from what God intended. At lunch I spoke with a couple who had been in chains from identities inherited from a broken past and heritage. The husband kept walls high because he didn’t…