sacred journeys

Great article on leadership. HT: Kairos website
Here is a partial quote from the article…
“There’s a myth out there right now that’s fairly common. It’s the myth of the omni-competent leader. It’s a myth that is partially true because there are truly outstanding leaders out there. But in the end it isn’t true or helpful […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

“It’s a big book, full of big stories with big characters. They have big ideas (not least about themselves) and make big mistakes. It’s about God and greed and grace; about life, lust, laughter and loneliness. It’s about birth, beginnings, and betrayal; about siblings, squabbles, and sex; about power and prayer and prison and passion….And […]

Psalm 88:4-5 (RSV)
4 I am reckoned among those who go down to the Pit;
I am a man who has no strength,
5 like one forsaken among the dead,
like the slain that lie in the grave,
like those whom thou dost remember no more,
for they are cut off from thy hand.
Eugene Peterson: “Two images describe […]

I met Alex my friend from Kairos for lunch…

L.A. is terrible for driving — but if you are going from Hollywood to downtown — it couldn’t be easier.
From our duplex, to parking the car, to getting on the subway…

- to getting downtown…

- it can be done in as little as 25 minutes. (which in L.A. […]

Garrison Keillor was just out here in L.A., and here is what a Midwesterner had to say about this great city.
(the subtitle of the article — “How an out-of-towner learned to appreciate the paradise of Los Angeles — traffic, drought and all.”)

“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”
Helen Keller

I cannot believe it, but on June 29th — my son will be done with junior high. Here is a shot that he took on his middle school campus last week.

And then in a couple of months after that — he will be starting high school !!??
You know you are getting older - when you […]

…you can negotiate the price of new shoes.
The saying goes around the Larson household, that dad never buys shoes. Well, it is not that I never buy shoes, just that I believe in taking such good care of my shoes — that they don’t wear out very fast.
Anyway, I was finally needing some shoes & […]

Make no mistake about it, this drama and this Kingdom’s agenda is at the center of the meaning of cosmic history and your own individual story. Like a grand conductor who calls in the flutes at just the right time, your Father has brought you into the Cosmic Symphony at your unique place in time […]