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Archive for February, 2005
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Monday, February 14th, 2005Absolute high point of the evening: Kanye West performing Jesus Walks and the rousing response from the crowd. (Go here for more on the impact of this song on me.) Anticlimax of the night: Kanye’s speech accepting “Rap Album of the Year” honors. A perfect set-up seconds after his performance and he bombs the kill [...]
My Boy’s a Fighter
Sunday, February 13th, 2005So I’m in the mountains for some R&R, when I started getting funny vibes. Saturday, Diana and I agreed that I would call her at her sister’s house in Mass at 9:30 to say goodnight and pray with our son. When I called, Di’s sister Tara said she went for a drive. Judah wasn’t too [...]
Off the mountaintop, into the valley
Sunday, February 13th, 2005I returned home to bad news. First came word that 4-yr. old cancer fighter Samuel is back in the hospital with a high fever. Please pray for him. Then came an email that a friend’s cousin committed suicide a few days ago. He left behind a seemingly wonderful life as a successful lawyer at a [...]
Alone, in the mountains
Friday, February 11th, 2005If it was good for JC, it must be good for me. With Diana and Judah away at her sister’s for a few days, I’m off to the moutains of upstate NY for a weekend of solitude — prayer, refocusing, refreshing, and (hopefully) a little rest. Pray with me that God speaks and, more importantly, [...]
Be you
Friday, February 11th, 2005Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can’t win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives. – Jim Collins For more on the subject of self-respect and identity issues, go [...]
Another responsibility failure
Thursday, February 10th, 2005How ’bout good ole Kim Jong II of North Korea? He hadn’t heard himself speak on an international stage in a few months, so this week he decided to boast about his possession of nukes and willingness to use them to defend his tyrannical regime against the United States’ “ever more undisguised policy to isolate [...]
Giambi accepts responsibility … for what?
Thursday, February 10th, 2005At a press conference today peppered with vague apologies and “I’m sorry” statements, Jason Giambi claimed to take full responsibility for what exactly? I for one can’t figure out what he was saying. He apologized for “distractions,” for “letting down” alot of people (including my then 2-year-old son, who wore a Giambi Yankee uniform one [...]
Pray for Abner and his team
Thursday, February 10th, 2005Abner Ramos is an Intervarsity staff worker at East L.A. College. One of the students in his chapter, Julio, was killed this week in a hit-and-run accident. Abner is in the middle of the tragedy, as is Brad Arnold, and I pray wisdom and spiritual strength as they support Julio’s loved ones during a very [...]
Murder made for prime time
Wednesday, February 9th, 2005Last week I posted a note about the disproportionate news coverage generated by a murder in the Lower East Side. This week’s Village Voice chronicles the story behind the story of how a seemingly unexceptional murder became front page news around the country. Race is undeniably part of the duFresne story. The randomness and location [...]
Local guy makes good
Wednesday, February 9th, 2005I never met him, but Rocky Stella is a friend of Jose and Mayra, so that’s good enough for me. This week’s New Yorker of the Week, named by NY1, founded and directs a soup kitchen at a Spanish pentecostal church not far from Xcel. Congratulations.
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