Category: Life
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Clean ’em out!
I just eliminated two thirds of the blogs in my RSS reader. My goal is to only track 30 blogs on a regular basis. That may sound like a lot to you (or a few), but I had 90 of ’em in there. I didn’t follow them all regularly, but they were there, begging for…
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Get back in the van!
Ever have that feeling in life where you’re chasing after the car instead of riding inside it – let alone driving it? Everything’s moving along, but there’s that feeling that it’s just not totally under control or all within reach. Yeah? I feel that way sometimes too. 🙂 Thing is, life is exciting. There are…
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Like little clouds
“They’re so comfortable! They’re like walking around on little clouds.” – Grete, as she tried on her new Croc sandals a few moments ago
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rain = productivity
It really doesn’t happen very often, but it’s a rainy, overcast day in Pasadena, which makes it a perfect day to hunker down, study, and get stuff done!
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Easter thoughts …
I’m a little behind the ball on this one, but I wanted to post a few post-Easter thoughts anyway. They aren’t super spiritual. If you’re looking for that, email me. I’ll tell you which blogs you should be reading :). Nothing really compares to the energy and feel of a church on Easter. There are…
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A Saturday hike
Grete and I took advantage of the beautiful Calfornia weather to go on a hike this weekend. One thing I love about Pasadena is that you can be in the middle of LA or the middle of nowhere with a 30-minute drive.
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Life buckets
Each of us have different buckets that our life fits in. For me, there’s a home bucket, a work bucket, a school bucket, and at least a few others. The challenge a lot of times is to pour our time and energy into the right ones. It gets even more difficult when they’re all good…
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Having patience and creepy kids’ songs
Isn’t it crazy what parts of our childhoods stick with us? When Grete was growing up, she was given a record (I think it was a group called Music Machine) that had little “Christianey” songs for kids on it. One of the songs had a snail singing about patience. That was a long time ago.…
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Two years
Two years ago today, a guy working as editor of a weekly newspaper in Texas married a woman who was working at a zoo as a gorilla keeper. Since then, she’s been a tutor and an office manager. He’s been a communications director at a non profit, a student, and a small groups coordinator at…
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Fuller and the Vietnam War
I wrote a piece for Fuller’s campus paper that was published this week about the response at the seminary to the Vietnam War. It was interesting to talk with some of the people who were on campus at the time and hear how one of the protests impacted their lives. We even spoke about how…
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Life starts now
 File this under the “that’ll preach” file. I love Five For Fighting’s song World, mainly because of one line: “History starts now.” In my life, a lot have time has felt like it’s just preparing me for that next thing. It’s easy to think that things will start clicking or big things will happen…
Jon Sampson 