by budlamb | Sep 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
I am unlearning what it means to be a pastor. It is not easy, or pleasant to shed your skin – it is like scalping your own soul. Reinvention is another word for unlearning. This kind of reinvention happens while I am living and being as a human. It is like...
by budlamb | Jun 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
You know how when driving long distances you can find yourself cruising at 85 feeling like you left your soul about a hundred miles back on I-5 somewhere around Kettleman City? That’s me. Too many trips, calls, projects, people. The good news is that I pulled...
by budlamb | Jun 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
On the water at 6:30 am. Up, east up the finger of Lake Folsom to the confluence of the American River’s South Fork. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBuR_T_qSRU&hd=1] Wind in my face [as usual] Boiling water Rapids crush Wrens dart Fish nuzzle Geese...
by budlamb | May 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
When I finished the rain stopped. My flushed face wet with sweat and rain. My eyes alert – the eyes of a hunter hungry for meat. My legs pulsing with lactic acid twitching muscles, mud and dirt, bits of twigs pine needles all mated into the hair of my lower...
by budlamb | Apr 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
They said it was impossible to build the Panama Canal. “Now, like it or not, the world wants something different from you” writes Seth Godin in his bestselling new book Linchpin. What does your boss, your board, your company, church – what does the...
by budlamb | Apr 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
All too often when stuff happens, I take it on like I’m the only one to figure this out as though my limited resources is all to bring to the table. The Bible teaches that followers of Jesus are connected to unlimited resources. And yet, as a follower of Jesus...