Category Archives: Daily Word
Sarah Palin
I wish I could paste this video into the blog, but I can’t. So click this link when you have about 15min. I have never heard a national politician talk this way. Amazing.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1766638341
robin
Cell Phone Quiz
I was in a meeting Thursday and 2 cell phones went off (very loudly) at different times. Each time, the person muted it without even looking at it.
WHY take it to a meeting if you aren’t going to use it? How important does it have to be to interrupt your meeting and answer the phone?
When was the last time you used your phone for an emergency? How many times this year have you used your phone for a ‘very’ important, time sensitive call?
Would you join my movement to leave cell phones in the car during meetings? (especially one-on-one)
-robin
The word
I find that once a new word or meaning for a word pops into my vocabulary, I then start to hear it all the time. It is sort of like buying a new car and then you see those cars all over the streets.
People like new words and use them so much that they become buzz words. Lately, I have heard MANY people use the word ‘tracking’. They will say things like “are you tracking with me?” or “oh, I am tracking now.” This means I guess that you are ‘following along’. Is it just me or is that word now a buzz word? Maybe I am slow and it has always been a frequently used word. Can anyone clue me in on when this became a hip word? Do you use it to sound cool?
I have a friend that ALWAYS uses the word “impetus”. In every conversation (and I mean every single one), he will find a way to fit the word ‘impetus’ into a sentence. I have found myself eagerly anticipating the placement. I can feel it coming and I almost fit it in the sentence for him.
What say you?
+robin
Large Scale Ambition
To me, one of the dangers of American culture is that ambition, success, and potential always seem inseparable from big numbers. Most people think that ambition must involve a bunch of whatever you are aspiring toward. For example, singers think they are legitimate when they “hit it big”. Writers want to sell a million books. The more you accumulate, conquer, sell, buy, deliver, or even eliminate the ‘better’ you are. Values in ambition, success, and potential are quantity based.
What if someone dropped out of high school, went to work at a fast food chain and totally followed God’s plan?
Our education system in America is institutionalized. At the turn of last century, we tried to crank kids out of school just like Henry Ford cranked cars out of his factory. Now, teachers are trying to get as many kids as possible to pass a test. Where are our priorities? Our systems need to support (and fund) the hiring of more teachers so they can spend time with less kids. In our neighborhood, the system just built a $12 million elementary school. Before the school was even open the PTA was organizing a ‘benefit’ and needed people to donate popcorn machines and snowcone machines so they could make money to support the PTA. That grieves me. We just spent $12 million on a building and we need a popcorn machine to raise a few hundred dollars for our PEOPLE? Where are our priorities?
Where is the value of small, high quality items? Small careers that mean a lot to God’s Kingdom? Investing in one person instead of 1000? Remember, Jesus ministered primarily to 12 men and a couple of women. This strategy was setting up a couple thousand years of the gospel message spreading like wildfire.
-robin
Nick’s Testimony
This is beautiful.
I think we feel the same way so much of the time with Kennady.
How encouraging.
Robin Steele 