1. My time at Lindenwood Retreat Center was good.  Like everyone else, it was raining pretty good and in the fifties…thirty seconds later…freezing with snow.  I almost couldn’t get my car doors open to come home.
2. Love the new carpet in the hallways.  With all the new paint smells, carpet glue smells, etc…I’m pretty much buzzing all the time.  I love my job.
3. New series begins Sunday.  I can’t wait to tell the Living Stones Church story.  Bring a friend!  Seriously!!  You don’t want to miss the opening announcements either…trust me!
4. Good-bye John Edwards; good-bye Rudy Giuliani
5. I’m getting old…I don’t like Winter much anymore.
6. My grandmother turned 82 yesterday.  She has a full-key pad cell phone for text messaging.  She is more technologically savvy and hip than anyone else in the family.  Seriously.
7. Caleb shoved a small plastic frog half way up his nose yesterday and went around asking, “Has anyone seen my frog?”  We are having him genetically tested.
8. Super Bowl on Sunday is anti-climatic.  All of my teams lost.  I’m rooting for the commercials.
9. Speaking of commercials…has anyone seen the Centennial commercial where the couple is all “baby talking” with one another and in the end the sales rep joins in…I laugh out loud every time I see it.
10. The first month of January 2008 is already over!!
11. Hearing several stories of pastors disqualifying themselves from ministry.  I’ll post on that soon.
12. Another post coming:  Leading a church “playing to win” versus “playing not to lose.”  Big difference.