1,825 miles and 841 pages later…

Yes­ter­day I flew 1,825 miles and read 841 pages. Yikes.

The last few weeks have been a blur. On Father’s Day I watched an astound­ing group of grad­u­ates cel­e­brate as they received their degrees from Stan­ford. As I sat in the hot sum­mer sun lis­ten­ing to Oprah Win­frey pon­tif­i­cate at com­mence­ment

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, I thought about their lives and what God might do through them. I also got sun­burn.

The day after grad­u­a­tion I hopped on a plane to Spring­field, MO to teach at Chi Alpha’s Reach The U insti­tute (that trip wound up being 2,278 miles due to weird rout­ing — I did­n’t think to keep track of the pages I read, but I will tell you that Augus­tine of Hip­po

is a dense read). Train­ing a new gen­er­a­tion of lead­ers is fun, but exhaust­ing. On the two worst days I taught 6 hours! I’m amazed I did­n’t lose my voice.

One cool thing — I shared a bath­room with fel­low instruc­tor Pete Bul­lette, some­one I had trained at this same con­fer­ence years ago. He now leads a min­istry of 250 stu­dents at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Vir­ginia down­load the invin­ci­ble iron man dvd . While I don’t think I can take cred­it for what he’s done there, I was hap­py that he mocked me for some of my actions those many years ago — it means I made an impres­sion. 🙂 Who knows what the new min­is­ters I trained over the last few weeks will go on to accom­plish?

All that to say, I have one of the best jobs in the world. I get to help the amaz­ing stu­dents at Stan­ford come to and grow in faith, and I get to train min­is­ters who will mul­ti­ply this on cam­pus­es around the world.

By the way, you can read about one of the afore­men­tioned grads in “The Rhodes Schol­ar” down­load ocean s thir­teen online (the arti­cle was pub­lished on Father’s Day, in case you’re won­der­ing about the huge father­ly empha­sis).down­load lars and the real girl movie