Archive for October, 2007

nothing left to burn

Published on October 3, 2007 in zoe/life. 2 Comments

There’s a candle on my desk that I light when the air gets stale in my office. I’ve had it for awhile, and I’ve used it fairly regularly (what can I say, I love the flicker!).

Today the wax is gone. My candle started strong, with a tall, crystal-orange flame reaching for the ceiling, but in about thirty seconds dwindled to a small bluish-red ball surrounding what’s left of the stumpy Glade wick. The glass ball container is clouded over with residue from past lights. It’s all used up, done.

Sometimes there’s nothing left to burn.

If you liked that, then try these…

michael moore on oprah

honest

twenty-four

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strengthsInsight: communication

Published on October 2, 2007 in zoe/life. 11 Comments

I realized this morning while on my short drive to the office that communication is actually a big part of how I feel alive.

Back in the day, even at the height of my singer/songwriter music performer career, I would have never called myself a prolific songwriter. And now, I write a LOT, and do a ton of graphic design, but I wouldn’t call myself a prolific writer or designer.

But today, it suddenly became clear to me that I am a rather prolific communicator. In some fashion, I am always producing some form of communication.

The reason for that, at least in part, is probably because when I feel/hear/think/realize something, in a strange sense it doesn’t become REAL for me until I’ve shared it. I may do that through a song, a piece of visual art/graphic design, a website, a book, or this blog, but until I’ve passed it along, I’m not actually sure it happened.

To a large degree, I seem to absorb reality by communicating it.

Strange, I know, but it probably has something to do with my StrengthsFinder Communication Theme… can anybody else relate?

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change lives or lives that change?

Published on October 1, 2007 in alethia/truth, koinonia/community and zoe/life. 1 Comment

My friend and coworker Kevin said today that he knows that we (meaning the “staff” of Journey, where I work) all want to help change lives.

But I’m not sure I do.

For me, to “change lives” means to develop, to bring about incremental growth, to help someone off drugs, or to stop drinking, or to be nicer to their wife, or to otherwise clean up their life. And while I recognize the obvious value and necessity of all of those things, for some reason his statement helped me realize that I want to be much more about maximizing the potential of humanity. I want to instigate ideas, to catayze thought and action, to be a leadership firestarter, igniting flames of passion in others so they can go out and use their lives to change the world.

Maybe it’s semantics, a small distinction. But for me, it was a light bulb.

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