kingdom travelin'

Today ends the shortening days! Tomorrow is the first full day of winter and the days will start growing longer a little bit at a time!

Thanks to Lea, here are more pics… click here

Covenant has done a live nativity scene in Charlottesville for a pretty long time… in fact when a landmark court case in the ‘ville cause the city to stop doing it, Covenant wound up with the wise men, stable, etc. and has (I think) done it since… it is always very well attended by families with little kids and we usually have some animals (sheep mostly), a few years ago I was tapped to narrate by reading the Christmas story from Scripture, last night after we finished, the news showed up to film for the 11 o’clock news, here is a link… (the link didn’t work well at school, but that may be b/c of our Internet connection… click HERE

Sweet Anna and I were watching a Christmas special by Faith Hill… she sang this new song which has an amazing message… check out the Youtube version…

When I am traveling across the pond, I often grab a copy of the International Herald Tribune to try to keep up with the news since other outlets are not available. Here at home, I often look to their website for news… today they have published their version of the year in pictures… herein you will see joy and sorrow, disbelief and hope, life and death, defeat and accomplishment… click here.

“Learning to pay attention and knowing what to pay attention to is a key discipline for leaders but one that rarely comes naturally to those of us who are barreling through life with our eyes fixed on a goal.” p.63

from Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership – Ruth Haley Barton

think about it… paying attention is HARD… we need to cultivate the habit of making the time that is necessary to stop all the busy-ness that we surround ourselves with and just pay attention… listen for that still, small voice. Far too often we are so hungry to hear something that we cannot hear Him, but satic that sounds just like Him…

….slowing down to pay attention.