Life...to the max!

PS to Mentoring Mondays...#40:

        In a few hours Judy and I will be totally off the grid of computing, Facebooking, texting, tweeting, and bleating.  However, with our new found freedom, we may be found to be bebopping to the sounds of Christmas music as we begin our family Christmas holiday.

        We are off the grid from the 15th through the 26th.  It's going to be fun to wake up tomorrow and know we are incommunacado...by choice...we need, want and are looking forward to the time as just family.

Mentoring Mondays...#40: Circle of influence...

        Last Saturday, here in the wild west of the US of A, an amazing moment took place...just at dawn.  I was up early to do breakfast with one of the good men I've the privilege of mentoring.  But before Peter and I settled down into an exxceptional conversation, we drove to a hill overlooking the Rockies to the west to watch the full eclipse of the moon...just as it was setting behind Mr. Evans in the west, and the sun was creeping over the horizon in the east.

        My feeble attempt at a photo with my iPhone shows a slight white dot in the sky above the buildings.  The shadow of the earth was about half way covering the moon.  The next time we will get to see this event here is on April 15, 2014.

        Taking time to share this experience together afforded we two men time to catch up with each other.  Both of us had experienced significant happenings in our lives since we last met.

    In the fall accomplishment of thoroughly retooling ALL my files from the past 45 years, this gem was rediscovered.  This sincrely massive retooling would not be possible, by the way, without the exceptional efforts of my wife, Judy, and our gift of grace for a year in our research assistant, Luke Hoselton.  Words fail with all you've done...but, anyway, thank you...both!!!

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            In the December 24, 1995 issue of the Denver Post we read this wonderful Christmas piece by Waddie Mitchell.  It took us some time to track it down for permission to use...but here it is...

             ...so from our house to yours... Merry Christmas.  May 2012 be a most blessed year for you personally...and those you love.  None of us knows what the next hour holds...let alone the new year...but what we know here at the Robert's house is that God is with us...God is good...God came down...God has chosen us, warts and all, to be His!...even me!...even you!......so rejoice...!!!

.......oh...yes.........................indeed!

Thoughtful...

...thought provoking.

Incarnating you, too.......

(...watch this...thoughtfully...)

Mentoring Mondays...#39: Mentors & Mentorees.......

        Way, way back when...as in 1992...one of the finer books with regard to mentoring showed up on the scene.  Paul Stanley and Robert Clinton had, out of their vast and deep experience, written Connecting.

        It was a refreshing and informative read.  It remains one of the classics on the subject of mentoring inviting us to think better, differently, deeper about this vital topic.  What these good men have written is congruent with their lives...they have and do walk their talk.

...however.......!

...indeed, indeed.......a prayer for this day:

Let my history then

be a gate unfastened

to a new life

and not a barrier

to my becoming...

...Charles Coon