Archive for May, 2008
Tasting Life
“And Solomon, my son, learn to know the God of your ancestors intimately. Worship and serve him with your whole heart and a willing mind. For the Lord sees every heart and knows every plan and thought. If you seek him, you will find him. But if you forsake him, he will reject you forever. [...]
We’re Ba a a a k!
Wow! What a great week we had on vacation.
Today was a travel day … all day. (Tuesday). Our flight left Chicago O’Hare Airport at 8:30 AM, was diverted and landed in Wichata Falls, TX because of bad weather at Dallas. We were on the ground waiting for 4 additional hours just sitting in the plane, [...]
Wooded Sky Over Wisconsin
We drove up to Devil’s Lake — a lake created by glaciers — on Wednesday. Then we took a hike that overlooked the lake on a trail called, “East Bluff Trail”. It was a fantastic hike, although the ATTACK OF THE GNATS movie could have been filmed there. There were millions and millions of them [...]
Bastian Legacy
Interesting day today (Tuesday). Ginger and I visited the grave sites of dozens of my family members on my father’s side. And I found out a lot of history about it. Although our name is not “Bastian” — the “Bastian’s” bought this farm land 152 years ago and started a cemetery that only allows relatives [...]
Indy 500 Here We Come!!
This is an amazing LATE-BREAKING STORY! We just went on Craig’s List for Indianapolis and scored 2 tickets to PREMIUM – Start/Finish Line tickets to the Indy 500! I’ve toured the race track twice in off-seasons, but it is truly one of my life’s goals to go to a race. We checked months ago and [...]
Sunday Service Update
I had a great time speaking at my mom’s church this morning. It’s kind of amazing to me and must be to her to remember how nearly 50 years ago (man, I’m old, eh Nancy?) she started praying for me. Years later, of course, God called me into the ministry. Now I travel over 2000 [...]
Welcome to My Hometown
This sign is very close to our hotel.
Funny Grandmother and Saturday Review
My Grandma Ruth is hilarious. She’s 91 and aging, that’s for sure… but I could listen to her for a long time. She had Ginger really laughing by saying such random stuff.
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Saturday we arrived just fine, drove from Chicago to Rockford. We had lunch with my brother, Steve, and one of his three sons, Michael, [...]
30,000 Foot Fog?
Flying 33,000 feet above heartaches, money, power, influence, and day-to-day cares brings a fresh perspective.
There’s something called the “30,000 Foot View” which you come across often in management courses. You are supposed to think this way before you zoom into the fog-of-the-day.
Fog.
I have driven in several types of fog. One fog experience I actually love [...]
Headed to Chi-Town
I grew up about 90 miles from Chicago, Illinois. At about midnight, Friday, May 16, 2008 we fly out of San Francisco on a 10-day trip back home. Some pretty exciting things are coming together that you could sure pray about for our trip there.
1. Ginger and I will be guest speakers at my mom’s [...]
