God's Pattern in Life's Pieces

Old steel beams and concrete floors shrouded the vision in front of me.  Members of the FellowshipChicago leadership team spoke with clarity and hope about what was going to be. A charter school.  A retail space to offer vocational opportunity.  A worship center. The immediate condition of the property didn’t discourage or overwhelm these leaders.  […]

I’m not exactly sure when I became a “handkerchief guy,” but that’s what I am.  Nearly everywhere I go I carry a carefully folded white cloth in my pocket.  I suppose this might have been initiated when my growing collection of whiskers made the flimsy tissues disintegrate into my mustache.  Unaware, I would then proceed […]

I get it.  Really, I do.  High tech momentum is fueling innovation and discovery at increasing velocity.  Phones, watches, health and exercise bracelets, houses that respond through instruction from those very devices; and all this in your automobile and more. Faster, smaller, smarter… barriers have been blown by without so much as a speed check. […]

The 2014 Chevrolet Impala is not like the Impala I remember.  I remember a rectangle that was predictable, reliable and nondescript.  At the Alamo rental car counter a week ago, a sympathetic agent flashed a smile at me and offered a week long rental in this new vehicle.  “Yes” burst from my lips before my […]