First, to those who have faithfully visited my blog, hoping for news about how I was doing on sabbatical, I want to say that I’m sorry I couldn’t keep you more informed and up to date. Actually, it wasn’t due to neglect, but rather because of a purposeful decision not to blog more often, based on two discoveries I made:
1) I found I needed some privacy for the process I was going through. I felt the blog was a much too public place to air my thoughts and feelings in raw, unedited form. read more »
Last week I was talking to a fellow pastor who has just finished his own three-month sabbatical. He told me some advice he heard that he adopted as his own mantra during his sabbatical: "Start really slow…and then slow down every day." Well, that’s enough for today. More later.
Sometimes it’s like trying to drink from a fire hose! There’s so much going on: a full schedule, lots of conversations in many different languages, old friends, new opportunities and challenges. read more »
