Last Friday we arrived at the local grocery store 45 minutes before opening, believing that was early enough. Unfortunately 40 other people thought they should get there earlier.

A buddy of mine sends me “Quarantini” pics of his nightly martini-of-choice. His attention to staging the ingredients with the recipe card positioned just so always brings a smile, if not always a “Yum.”

It is very difficult to be involved with people and not take on their emotions. Emotions connect us, you know. The struggle is that our brokenness gravitates to those feelings that feed brokenness, sinking into the couch as anxiety and fear convince us they’re the best Netflix has to offer.

Overnight, your ministry landscape changed and your ministry funding slowed to a trickle. Do you cut expenses, ask for dollars, or what?

Leadership in a crisis – a situation that overturns the norm, creating new norms that range from fleeting to evermore – requires humility. Humility because tomorrow’s details are unknown.

“It’s like everyday I wake up and it’s the same day, the same stuff over and over,” Bill Murray’d Pastor Anthony via Zoom this week. For routine-lovers, repetition and same-squared energizes and inspires.

The last few weeks forced congregations and church leaders to pivot from a largely face-to-face, in-the-same-space reality to a digital, church-in-your-living room model.

Yesterday was my birthday. 59 good ones. My daughter lovingly revealed that “59 is almost 60.” She’s impatient. I’m of the age that presents are something I buy throughout the year, on my own.