Poor Visibility

I’m a fan of analogies and since I’m on a walk by faith kick right now, I’ll use another one I thought of the other day as my flight landed in Cleveland Ohio.  I was on a red eye headed to North Carolina and needless to say, very tired.

As the pilot notified us of our initial decent, I could see the lights on the ground several miles below.  I closed my eyes again for the remaining 30 minutes of the flight, opening them periodically to judge how soon we would be landing by how close we were to the ground.  Funny thing, for the final fifteen or twenty minutes of the flight I could see almost nothing as the plane was completely engulfed in thick fog.

Then out of nowhere the ground appeared and couldn’t have been more than a few hundred feet away.  It took me by surprise because almost as quickly as we regained visibility, we were on the ground taxiing down the runway.

The pilot did an exceptional job landing the aircraft despite severely limited visibility and that’s what got me thinking about walking by faith.  No doubt the pilot’s vision was limited but he had three contributing factors helping guide him in and we have similar outside sources helping us along as we walk by faith in times or poor visibility. READ MORE

Significant Insignificance

Have you ever done something small or seemingly insignificant for someone and later come to discover that it meant the world to them?  Often times the most minuscule and meaningless tasks can make the biggest difference to a person who is hurting or in need of encouraging. READ MORE

What Makes You Come Alive

I’ve told my story at least a hundred times.  I’ve talked about setting my sights on Southern California somewhere around the fifth grade with every intention of living and working in the midst of the industry that I love.  To some that’s all it is, an industry.  It’s a hobby that I’m pursuing and have been able to make living at for a little while.

At 25, I’ve had more jobs than I can count.  I started mowing lawns and working in my fathers hardware store at ten years old.  I’ve worked in retail, management, recreation and residence life.  I’ve served as an equipment manager for a football program and paddled people through class IV rapids.  I’ve hung drywall, gutted houses and operated heavy equipment.  Most recently I quite a “corporate job” in pursuit of what many consider a hobby.  READ MORE