Jeffrey C. Long

I’ve put a lot of time into trying to organize my world and read a lot about personal productivity. Always with the mindset that I am not accomplishing all I could, and am dropping balls. But this quote from Howard Thurman on the Inward/Outward site says that there is something else to be gained from [...]

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From website “stuff” comes this startling bit of news. It may come as no surprise, but almost every email sent in 2007 was spam.About 95 per cent of emails this year – up from 70 per centin 2006 – were classified as junk messages, according to a report fromUS security firm Barracuda, Agence France Presse [...]

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I remember my first latte. A pretty remarkable feat given the proliferation of espresso stands. But I lived in King County 20 years ago when Starbucks was just getting its start in downtown Seattle. I was still going to school at Northwest College in Kirkland, studying to be a pastor. Newly married, living in the [...]

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The writer’s guild strike hasn’t hit us where it hurts yet, i.e. the interruption of new episodes of our favorite shows. If it does, I will lose some favorites. NBC seems to have suddenly discovered that there is a market for science fiction and given us shows like “Bionic Woman,” “Journeyman,” and my favorite, “Heroes.” [...]

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I’m not big on mornings, but it seems this famous Celtic prayer could get things off on the right foot.I Rise TodayI rise todayin the power’s strength, invoking the Trinitybelieving in threeness,confessing the oneness,of creation’s Creator.I rise todayin the power of Christ’s birth and baptism,in the power of his crucifixion and burial,in the power of [...]

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