A civil engineer here in Boise shared a consultant’s advice on how the city should plan for growth. The consultant listed three factors a city needs in order to create and sustain a thriving urban culture. 1) A cool downtown scene. 2) A reputable four-year college. 3)...
Why You Can’t Let Yourself Feel Content
I’ve prayed about discontentment. I’ve confessed it. I keep a gratitude journal. But it was only this past year that I got a breakthrough as to the real problem. I don’t want to be content. I’m afraid of it. I look at successful people and I hear and recycle in...
What’s the Point of Waiting?
“I hate when they make you wait in the room. Because it says ‘Waiting Room.’ There’s no chance of not waiting. They call it the waiting room; they’re going to use it.” - Seinfeld Seinfeld captures that slow dread—waiting. But then there’s those times when you wait for...
Look good by letting it go
“Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.” – Proverbs 19:11 There are people who impress you, but you can’t figure out why. They possess some hidden mystique. You can be one of those people. All you’ve got to do is let more...