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My friend Matthew Porter nailed it in his post about the challenges of walking the tight rope between fulfilling exactly the request (the rules, the directions) AND taking the request/rules/directions into a pursuit of more creativity. As Matthew put it, the challenge is that the brave pursuit means “to risk complete failure for the chance…
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“The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.” Millard Fillmore, right? I mean, President Fillmore is one the guys who is really unknown, un-remembered. Most people can name at least 10 Presidents. The “educated” can probably get close to 20. Yet, even for the…
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Since we are in the new year, it brings up a warning in my spirit that C.S. Lewis discussed in his wonderful The Screwtape Letters. There, Lewis reminded me that in our humanness, God designed us to want to enjoy the rhythms of life that bring in change, new times, new moments. God built in the…