Wandering with Reckless Abandon

To the girl sitting at the table across from mine at Caribou Coffee in Hunt Valley, Maryland:
Dropping the F-bomb and other assorted curse words every thirtyeight seconds is NOT sexy.
That is all.

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So I have been doing some church shopping of late, and the last couple of weeks have found me at a local church that seems to have a good bit of potential…
Potential… that word has haunted me on and off for many years. A big part of who I am and [...]

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One of the true joys in my life is to hear back from one of my kids… The last couple of weeks I have been blessed to recieve emails from a couple of my students, catching me up on their life, and letting me know how they are doing…
At the end of both emails [...]

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I remember back in the late eighties(?) watching an Orioles game when Billy Ripken, the lesser known Ripken, was up to bat. Up until that point Billy had been a serviceable second baseman that was gaining in reputation around the league. During his at bat Billy took a ball to the head (I [...]

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So, apparantly my resume is being considered for a church, somewhere (I honestly do not remember where), and they sent me the typical church questionaire… As I was reading through it, everything seemed normal until I got to this question:
Is there anything in your life or life-style, past or present, which, if it were [...]

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So, I was reading this and this over at Monday Morning Insight and to be honest with you, I am not surprised.
With the mobilization of the Evangelical Christian Voting Block for the Bush presidency and the incredible success of Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ, there has been an awakening in the [...]

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So there are a couple of songs that have been playing over and over in my head lately…
The first is by Jason Upton… it is a song that for the life of me I can not find anywhere on CD, if you know where I can get it… I will give you a [...]

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Saturday morning…
Each Saturday we have our weekly sales meeting. At this meeting we discuss the relevant things that we need to know each week… our used car inventory, recent ads, and any other important stuff.
There also tends to be a motivational element to each of these meetings.
The thing that I am recognizing [...]

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So tonight I sold my second car of the month… it was a 2005 Ford Escape. I didn’t make much money off of it, because in order to make the sale we dropped about $3,000 off the price, but what I will make in the long run looks like I will be better [...]

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Since my “career change”, and becoming a Sales Consultant (as my business cards call me) I have many reactions from people when they hear my story. There are those whose faces squinch up in disgust and ask me how I could go from ministry to car sales, and then there are those who ask [...]

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