Charting our Course

Thoughtfulness...Wisdom...Mulling it over...Introspection...Studying on that a bit...Considering...Puttin' on your thinkin' cap... Meditating...Pondering... However you prefer to say it, this blog is about what I notice when I just pay attention to life and think. I am gaining a great conviction that some things matter, and some things don't, and it is important to be able to tell the difference.

Unlike my wife, I'm not so good at multi-tasking, but I do get in a hurry, and that hurry, coupled with my singular 'just what is in front of me right now' focus causes me to fly through life often missing things that are important. Other than myself, this most directly affects my family, my church, and my close friends, but in a lesser way, my bank teller, our dentist, and even the college student across the street in the brown '78 pinto with the "one nation under goddess" bumper sticker. Solomon said "In the multitude of counselors there is much wisdom". That is why I'm not taking this journey in a hardback blank book with an ink pen in my hand. I welcome and want you to share your thoughts with me too.

The discipline of slowing down, looking around, and thinking about the life I am spending is what I hope this blog will do for me, and maybe for you too. Although I'm sure I will wade around in the shallow streams examining the stony creek bottom, panning for the occasional nugget of gold, and maybe kayak through some frothy, turbulent, and dangerous rapids with you, I will probably play in the sprinkler some too, possibly even take a ride over Niagara Falls in a barrel of my own making, but I do hope to swim out to deeper, still waters where the current is slow but strong and the bottom dark and murky making it foreboding and indiscernible with this endeavor.

It is my hope that this will help me slow down, pay attention, organize my thoughts, wax poetic, mull over questions and doubts, convictions, faith, and even minutia with my family and close friends. So pull up a comfortable chair, wrap your cold fingers around that warm mug of coffee, take a moment to look out the window, breath deeply, then put on your 'thinkin cap' and let's chat a while...friend.