I recently took Harry for a walk around our neighborhood of Golden Hill. Ending up at a park where Harry proceeded to pee on roughly 96 different bushes, I had a perfect view overlooking downtown San Diego. There were lights everywhere, the highways were packed full of cars speeding to their next event…everyone seemed to …
Category Archives: Missional Living and Advocacy
Theology of Reflection: part 1
I love Costa Rica. It could be the perfect chest high surf or the tropical rains or the endless wild fruits that you can pull from trees and eat as breakfast on the go. It is all of those things (and much more!). But in order to fully appreciate all those brilliant realities, one must …
Top 3 Highlights and Challenges of 2010
Janny and I were able to get away for a couple hours yesterday and reflect on 2010. It was a sweet process and reminded us what a huge year this has been in our lives. We reflected separately initially, yet we came up with the same top 3 events/experiences. Here they are: Highlights 1. Pregnancy/Welcoming …
Stories Behind our Gifts
This is a great season to allow our values to be reflected in the way we spend our money. It is so important for those of us who have endless products at our disposal to remember the stories behind the production of each one of them. I struggle with this and I invite others to …
Living Mission
We were about to pray for our Sunday evening community meal when a man walked in the front door looking a bit rattled. He looked around the living room where we were all gathered in a semi-circle and said, “My car just got stolen in the alley behind your house. Did any of you see …