tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86351747638793296212012-02-16T09:42:49.591-08:00A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERING WHAT'S HIDDEN: MYSELF, OTHERS AND OUR CREATORSeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18339098484688672733noreply@blogger.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635174763879329621.post-78327983207709810232012-01-01T19:01:00.000-08:002012-01-01T19:01:33.350-08:00

New blog address is: www.anexplorerwithalimp.com

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YEAR ENDING...NEW BEGINNINGS As we approach the end of 2011 it offers a time of reflection, but also an invitation into what lies ahead. For me it was a year of transitions.  As many of you know transitions can be easy, needed, exciting, hard, painful, unwanted. This past year for me was all of the above. One of those transitions was the birth of The Solstice Project, seeking to help others

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The well where real thankfulness is found. Celebrating Thanksgiving this year was different for me. I found myself thankful for the things I am typically thankful for: family, friends, health, job, home. But I wasn't thankful for them because they are all great. Instead my gratitude came from a much deeper place, a place of suffering. The suffering has been unbelievably humbling and humiliating

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FINAL UPDATE FROM CAMBODIA! I am heading home!!! After two and a half weeks, I begin my journey home tonight. Much to process and work to engage in upon my return. Possibly a return trip within the next 6-9 months. My last three days here were spent in the Province of Kep at The Vine Retreat (an eco guesthouse and organic pepper farm) leading some folks, who attend the same house church in

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UPDATE #5 This trip thus far has exceeded my expectations. Some doors I expected to open have closed, but so many more have opened. Not only has the vision of The Solstice Project connected with needs here in Cambodia, but there has been an overwhelming receptivity and desire to work together with individuals, organizations and churches in addressing the integration of a life of being and doing.

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Update #4 I have officially hit the hump day of my trip. It has gone by fast. Just got off of face time with my family, so good to see their beautiful faces and hear their voices. However much I miss them I know this is where I am supposed to be doing exactly what I am doing. I left off on my last post having spent the morning with Sophrith, Chab Dai Director of the Door Step 2 project. Here is

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Update # 3 from my time in Cambodia. If you missed the previous two you can check out FORTY-ONE and FORTY-TWO The past weekend was a low key time spent with the Docarmo (my hosts) and Sworn (the founders of Chab Dai) families. I was still experiencing jet lag and was in bed by 7pm and up at 4:30am. It was good to not have much on the calendar.  Monday was a holiday celebrating the former

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It's Saturday and I am enjoying a peaceful morning with my cup of Joe, as the much needed breeze blows into my room through the balcony door. The first 48 hours have been full. On Thursday afternoon I attended a UN meeting bringing govt and NGO's (Non-governmental Organizations) together to share some recent research on Human Trafficking and it's connection to domestic violence in the region.

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I'm here!!! After 20 hours on a plane I arrived into Phnom Penh at 11:30 pm on Wednesday the 26th.  The time and day are important because both my host, Tania and Genelson, and myself thought I arrived on Thursday. As I was arriving I realized I didn't have their address or home phone #. I was preparing myself for an over-nighter at the airport. When I got to customs there was a long line to

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TWO-WEEKS!!! I will be boarding a plane, destination Phnom Penh Cambodia, where I will spend three weeks ministering to some amazing folks who are combating Human Trafficking (both sex and work slavery). I will be serving both National and NGO leaders. To help better understand what I will be doing it is important to understand the ethos of The Solstice Project. The work of Solstice seeks to

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THANKS!!! In the past week some things have happened with regard to Solstice that a huge thanks is in order. Thanks to the Jonas family, from Cornerstone Church in Livermore, for allowing us to use their cabin near Yosemite for the vision retreat. Your generosity and hospitality was truly a blessing. Thanks to everyone who prayed for the vision retreat last week. Josh, Alex and myself had a

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FALL Today is the first day of Fall, which means summer is coming to an end. I wanted to share a couple of my favorite photos of summer:

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Later today, Sept. 18, myself and two others, Josh and Alex, are heading to a cabin a couple hours southeast of Sacramento for a three day vision retreat for the work of Solstice. We are very excited to be coming together to prayerfully flesh out God's vision for this work. I would ask if you would over the next three days pray for our time together and that there would be a beautiful

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You ever feel like your beat is not quiet the same beat as others? For most of my life I have internally felt that way. I tried to hide it by embracing whatever popular culture was producing, liking top 40 music (although most of it sucks) is an example. But inside there was this rub going on. I found myself wanting to do things a bit different, but was fearful of what others might think. What

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LIMP There is an ancient hebrew story about a guy, Jacob, who has an encounter with God and walks away with a permanent physical limp. However, Jacob was limping far before this encounter. He was born a few seconds after his twin brother Esau and the story goes that he was actually grabbing Esau's foot trying to prevent him from being born first. It would be the first of many attempts by

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SOLSTICE HAPPENINGS Some important events coming up for Solstice: September 18-20 myself and Pastor Josh Hall will be getting away for a time of prayer, meditation and to work on the vision, written content for the website and discussion on possible Board members.. Please pray that our time will be Spirit led, focused and we would come back with clarity of the next steps and the  communication

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Support and Opposition I was reading and meditating on the Third letter of John (one of the shortest books in the Scriptures, just 15 verses). It is a pastoral letter written by the Apostle John to one of his churches. Here is the text verses 5-8:  "Dear friends, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers and sisters, even though they are strangers to you. They have told the church

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IT'S OFFICIAL!!! The ministry of Solstice is an official Non-Profit Organization.  This is a very important first step toward the work of Solstice beginning. In this post I wanted to give some updates and clarity to what the work of Solstice will be. CLARITY. The work of Solstice will begin by focusing on two areas. 1. Solstice will work alongside organizations overseas who are focused on the

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What are you doing? This seems to be a question I get asked often lately, so I'm posting the things I am currently involved in... 1)  I'm working part-time with SAAM Church as their Lead Pastor. I have been working with this community for over 4 years now. I love this community and how embracing they are of the call to become disciples of Jesus.  2)  I'm starting a non-profit called "Solstice"

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Preparing the soil  16 years ago today, a basketball team and music group where heading to Malawi, Africa out of San Diego. I was @font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1

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Marriage. Today June 3, 2011 Jess and and I celebrate 11 years of marriage. The covenant of marriage is not for the faint of heart. It will take you to high's not possible on your own and it will challenge your being at some of the deepest levels. Our journey together cannot be fully expressed here. What I can say is that the joy, pain, happiness, frustration, adventure, disappointment,

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Redemptive Love. This past week was one of the most difficult times in my life. Death was near. But God reigns. His love is so much stronger then death. It is for love, redemptive love, that creation celebrates the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. "The God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not." Redemptive love has always been the thread in which God connects

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ASH. Often signifying death, also signifies life. After a fire the ground actually becomes more fertile and thus there is more growth then before. Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert and for many in the West those 40 days have had a more somber connotation. They represent testing, hardship, danger, and uncomfortability. Which are the antithesis of our culture: entitlement, easy, safe,

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A BEAUTIFUL DILEMMA. About two weeks ago I was putting Kai to bed. We have a routine we do: floss and brush teeth, read a story, climb into bed, go over the days events, pray (while I scratch his back, he is so his mother) and give a kiss and say goodnight. Usually Kai tries stalling by asking questions (mostly good ones), and this night was no different. When that was done I left to go take a

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OBJECTIFY. This one thing LOVE cannot do. It is impossible for LOVE to objectify anything.  Yet objectifying is what I mostly hear and see these days. It is coming from politicians, governmental leaders, religious leaders, journalists, corporations and even the common person. No one is immune to it. It has a strangle hold on our world today. I believe it is the greatest obstacle to humanity

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V-DAY. That's right, tomorrow morning (2/25) I go in for my vasectomy. The procedure will be done by Dr. Doer. Yes, that is his real name. When I went in for my consultation I asked if they had had any issues with previous procedures. He said of the 600 plus there was only one they knew of. So I inquired on what happened. Dr. Doer said they never thought to ask a patient coming in for a vas if

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PARALLEL. How many of us find ourselves in relationships that are parallel? Often our relationships are either totally disconnected or totally enmeshed, neither are healthy. I would even argue that this is how most peoples relationship with God is, again not healthy. The Apostle Paul says that we are to reflect the life of Christ. We cannot do that by being disconnected or enmeshed, but only

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LOSS. We often think of loss as a negative. But what if loss can become an opportunity for gain? Two quotes have had me thinking about this idea of loss. "Fire is a redistribution of ecological wealth." Brian McLaren "One always learns one's mystery at the price of one's innocence." Richard Rohr Take some time to let those soak in. Then respond to these questions: What if the Christian faith

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RELAXED. It is a synonym for unhurried. Jesus had a rhythm to his life that was both unhurried (relaxed) and active. This is not just because he was human and needed rest. He modeled the rhythm of his Father (God). Our creator is both unhurried and active. It is in our DNA to live this way. Most of us major on activity with little to no unhurriedness. Thus are activity often bears little fruit.

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FATHER AND SON. A week ago Kai and I spent the weekend in Tahoe as I spoke at a retreat at Zephyr Cove. We had such an amazing time being together. I loved watching Kai hanging out with these young adults. He played games, had conversations, and had snacks on his own while I spent time with people. A few times I would look over and watch him interacting with others and found myself so thankful

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RETREAT. I am on a spiritual retreat this week so will not be posting, but I look forward to sharing from my experience. If I come to your mind I would value your thoughts and prayers. Blessings and Peace until next week.

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MENTORING. This weekend I am heading to Tahoe to speak at a young adults retreat. In the past I have gone by myself, seeing that I don't need help with the speaking. Past times have been enjoyable, fun, restful and lots of time for myself. In other words it is easy for me. However, I have become more and more aware that going by myself is not the way of Jesus. He took others with Him. It usually

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PLAY-TIME. In my desire to discover more and more of who I am and what I am not, I recently took the Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator Personality Test. One of the things that the description of my personality type (to go unnamed at this point) said is that one of the areas that can create a problem for me is: Not allowing enough "play time" in my relationships—feeling that all spare time

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RIVALRIES. Are all but dead. This past weekend the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers played a playoff game, the first one in over 80 years, against each other. These two teams have played against each other in the regular season twice every year for over 100 years. There aren't many teams that have this longevity of competition. However, the use of the term "rivalry" is an inaccurate

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FATHERHOOD. Being a parent is by far the most difficult, humbling, rewarding and beautiful process I have ever journeyed in. It has revealed so many of my short comings and character flaws, but also has drawn out of me my deepest love and care. It has given me some of my deepest frustrations (mostly with myself) and greatest joys (mostly with the boys). I have often had to ask for Kai's

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REMEMBERING. Yesterday I wrote on my facebook wall, "I am becoming more and more sadly aware that many of the days set on our calendar to reflect, remember and honor people/ideals that are essential messages to our humanity have become merely "days off." They have become days of self-serving: presents, week vacation, three day weekends, etc. The Scripture is filled with stories of altars

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LOVE AND LIGHT "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."This is the message we have heard from him (Jesus) and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all... God is love... For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another."

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SOLITUDE. "More nourishment and strength in one hour of obscurity than in ten weeks of thinking." Thomas Merton AMEN!!!

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PATIENCE. Love is described as being it. For me it is probably the most difficult element of what makes up Love. I struggle with it in dealing with myself, my marriage, family, friendships, as a parent, coach, pastor, mentor and understanding of how God operates. In essence Love is difficult for me because of my lack of patience. Patience releases control, yet embraces the responsibility.

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REST. It seems this concept in a consumer based, success driven, technologically connected, information overloaded, fear based culture has been seen as not needed. True, vacations are a popular thing, but how many of your vacations are restful? How many are just like the rest of your overly busy life, but just in a different geographical location? What I am talking about is rest for the soul.

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I am reading Thomas Merton's autobiography, The Seven Story Mountain. He shares a story about him and his younger brother, John Paul when they were kids and how John Paul wanted so bad to hang with his older brother and his friends. It made me think about Kai and Laken and will they have these experiences. Here is the story as recorded by Thomas: I suppose it is usual for elder brothers, when

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My friend James commented on SEVEN'S post that, "When one sees an others face they see God's face." So I added his picture along with the cross to my mirror to start my day off being reminded of God's presence. That's not weird is it?

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SUNDAYS. This morning I asked my self why is is that Sunday mornings I automatically think of God as I get up and drive into work? It literally is the only day I intentionally don't listen to the radio while driving. Why don't I naturally do this on the other days? I found myself frustrated because I didn't have an answer. Have I subconsciously bought into the one day a week is sacred nonsense? I

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I will be taking the next two days off form blogging. My goal is to do six days then a day of rest. I will start back up on Sunday and go through Friday with my blog sabbath being on Saturdays. If you missed any of the previous please give a read and let me know your thoughts. Have a blessed weekend.

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LAUGHTER. I believe it is one of the top three creations by God of all time. I am talking about the laughter when you can't stop, your eyes are watering and your gut hurts. The last time I experienced this gift, before tonight, was during the movie "Death at a Funeral (the British version). "It's touch and go," said Uncle Alphy. Tonight I got to experience this twice. Thats right I said twice.

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The last 10 years I have read around 200 books. The question I have been asking is: how much of these readings have helped shape me and my life? What I am discovering is that in the moment of reading a book is when I am most influenced. I typically do not give a reading enough time to sink in and see what sticks and what doesn't. I also have read very little for the pure enjoyment of story. So,

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For the next four days our home will be filled with nothing but testosterone (accept when Laken calls me mommy, which is all the time). I feel this need to go and get three kilts for us to wear. The activities that are coming to mind are to go outside and throw stones, hunt a wild animal (maybe a cat), build a fort, eat pizza and drink beer (don't worry Laken's will be in a sippy cup and not out

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One of the areas I have been working on is my need to control. Whether in my marriage, as a parent, my relationships or my job. I had read this from Father Richard Rohr and felt like I was simultaneously being kicked in the privates and encouraged. Enjoy... As adult Christians, we need to do things from the heart space, not from the ego’s need to assert itself or win any argument.  We do not

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I face the reality of change today. I feel naked and exposed, yet free. After seven years of leading and teaching at Flood on Sunday nights there will be no gathering to lead tonight. No one is coming to where I am to hear what I have to say. There is no structure/institution set up for me to hide behind/within. As I reflect, I realize that it was never really about Sunday's anyway. It was about

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I started 2011 by bringing Jess a cup of coffee in bed. I love how much she enjoys starting her day that way. Her delight and enjoyment are a snap shot into who she is within. I found myself realizing how blessed I am that I am the only one who gets to share these moments with her. Marriage is falling in love with the small things, because they usually reveal who that person is within. Here is to

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I celebrate knowing what I've come through and so hopeful about where I am going. I have learned that transformation is a gift, but often a painful one. There is part of me that wants to throw 2010 into the abyss, while another part wants to never forget. Maybe that is just how life is. 2011...

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