Chris's Musings

Going into Caribou Coffee the other day, I noticed that they had some really cool new napkins that looked like the "back of the napkin" writing that you'd do if you were noodling some ideas over a coffee.  It was really neat. One of them said:  "Life's Too Short For" and then lists a few things on their list.  I have a list too, because life is too short for: - Worrying about stuff - Letting past failures rule your life - Complaining - Living not knowing that you're where God meant you to be - Bad Mexican food - Not living in community with peeps you enjoy spending time with - Image management - Withholding love from others - Staying inside on really fantastic days - Waiting to pursue your dreams - Procrastinating on living out God's potential for your life - Bad movies I'm sure there are more.  Feel free to comment.

Last night and this morning, I had an opportunity to hear John Ortberg speak at Buckhead Church to a small group leader training and then at church this morning.  He was talking about some of the thoughts from his new book "The me I want to be" - and how it relates to how we approach our lives and our transformation into the people that God uniquely created us to be.  What's really cool is that at the re:group small group leader training, we all got a copy of the book for ourselves and now I really want to digest it.   There were a lot of thoughts that Ortberg said during those two sessions that are resonating with me, but one that is especially ringing is this thought about grace-based transformation (or sanctification if you're using "churchy" terms to talk about this) and how grace is as much required for us to be transformed into the people God designed us to be as it is to initially rescue us from a life separated from God.  And then he talked about