Balancing Kiwis

One day as Unsui stood outside the gate, the Master called to him, “Unsui, Unsui, why do you not enter?” Unsui replied, “I do not see myself as outside. Why enter?”
Are you inside or outside?
Why?

Well, it was a good day to go and help with the “Displace Me” event . . . 5000 showed up to sleep and our team really enjoyed the opportunity to help during the day. Over 67,000 showed up in total nationally to raise awareness of the 1.5 Million Northern Ugandans displaced by […]

95% knowledge – as Christ followers we have to be in the other 5% where we are in the mystery.
All great scientific discoveries are found in the unknown – we have been telling folks we know more than we do.  We just know God.
We will live in mystery and uncertainty forever.
Car hitting you from nowhere […]

Day 2 of Humana 2.0 - Yesterday was inspiring, creative and thought-provoking.  Avatars and Idols, Who We Are and Where We Are, Strength Finding, Contagion, Wandering . . . The future is invading and affecting the  present . . . Now. 
 Some will not understand.  Some will understand, but not go.  Some will go.
Notes and thoughts to […]

So today we get to vote . . . Anyone interested in the fight to stop global poverty can sign ONE more ballot by putting your name on the ONE voter pledge at www.one.org.
Here’s the email from Josh Peck for those who are interested . . .
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Tomorrow, as American citizens, we will vote. But […]

Went to the Guluwalk (and we actually ended up running a large part of it despite some crazy heat!) this Saturday to raise money for the children of Northern Uganda . . . It was a good event with a lot of folks with a lot of passion and drive, and a good amount raised […]

Ta’Mar over at Kaleidescope has a link to an Amnesty website calling for more UN peacekeepers to be sent to Darfur immediately - over 30,000 have signed the petition and you can sign up in a few moments . . . A way to BE part of the change we want to see.
Also, this Saturday […]

I’ve been reading Eugene Peterson recently.  He’s a guy with a lot of wisdom from years of trying to figure out “what is this thing we do?”, and I have found many excellent nuggets within.  One of the ideas he writes on is that of “subversive spirituality”.
If we take the concept of “subversive” as meaning to […]

We rolled a snowball recently. 
Not a literal one, but a metaphorical one.  Because I grew up near the coastal towns of England we rarely had any snow accumulation, so when we did it was absolutely brilliant!  Sledding, snowmen, and snowballs - we loved it all. 
Then I got to attend a college in MA.  For the first […]

On being open to change and risk:
“Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At their death, they are withered and dry. Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and unyielding is the disciple of life”