Dreams Unlocked

I have to confess - I am getting way more work done in the new office - it is far away from the life of the house, that I actually feel like I am away - except for when Adam and Sophia come running in here to attack me. I worked all day prepping for a leadership retreat for our elders this Saturday. I am presenting a lot of the ideas found in Jim Collin's book: Good to Great. This is a book that I have known about for a long time, and finally got around to reading recently. I wish I had read it earlier - it is excellent. Collins is very popular among pastors for the practical wisdom he has in leading organizations well. Felicia has set up a baby monitor in my office, so that I can hear either Sophia or Adam from the downstairs office. Half the time it sounds like the aliens from Signs are trying to talk to me. I usually have it turned off - but don't tell her that.

Working in my office at First Baptist - about 3-4 yrs. ago. Slowly moving in - I have a new desk and chair, both IKEA. 2 book shelves are up - we need to build one more. And then I need to move all the books in. Offices I have had: First Alliance Church in Calgary: a desk and chair in a sort of open area, next to the children's pastors office. I also used empty offices of pastors who were on vacations - including the senior pastor's office - which was huge and had a fire place. First Baptist Church Vancouver - had a office in the "youth house" behind the church. -had another office inside the actual church building - it was pretty nice. 1250 Granville - our first apt. in Vancouver - had a tiny little office that overlooked busy granville street. 950 Cambie St. - beautiful office with floor to ceiling glass windows on the 26th floor overlooking yaletown 2 Spruce Court - nice office near the front door of the first house we lived in in Port Moody Right now - I work at a...

Finally slowly getting back in the swing of things, after the time away. A couple of guys and myself moved a bunch of stuff out of the school that our church has met in for the past 9 years. It was kind of weird. I'm really looking forward to the move to the theatre. It is centrally located in Port Moody - in the same building as City Hall, in fact. My health issue - I have touched briefly in past tweets and facebook status' and maybe even on here about a health issue I have been dealing with - Since February I have been having very bad sinus pain - I've gone on 3 rounds of antibiotics and an x-ray. Today I saw an ENT specialist and his over eager resident. The diagnosis is.... nothing. There is nothing medically wrong with me. He said it's just stress. I guess that's good news - but I'm not sure how to treat it - green tea while listening to Enya? He said good diet, exercise, plenty of rest should all help, and Advil. So basically that's it - stress. I don...

It's late at night - I'm listening to Bat For Lashes. We left last Thursday on our summer vacation. 1 week of holidays so far. 1st day - Travelled to Kelowna and stayed with some friends who were renting a lake front house. It was very beautiful there, and we met there 7mth. old twins who were very cute. Then a long long drive from Kelowna to Calgary. Stayed at a nice hotel in downtown Calgary right next to the Bow River. I interned at a large church in Calgary in 1993 - that short time was one of the most positive ministry experiences of my life - made many great friends through that time. Went back to that church - First Alliance. It has now supersized to about 3000 in weekly attendance in a beautiful new facility in the south of Calgary. It was truly one of the most unbelievable church buildings I had ever seen. I didn't see many of my older friends as many were away. We made a day trip to the Tyrell Museum of Paleontlogy - which actually planned our trip to Calgary for ...