Letters to a Congregation
Every Thursday I write a pastoral letter to the west congregation of The Austin Stone Community Church. These letters are simple, pastoral musings on what it looks like to live a life that is attentive to God in the midst of a shared context.
The One About Halloween Candy and the Value of Your Attention
One of the limitations of our (frankly quite incredible) human brains is that they are not able to pay attention to everything, and certainly not able to pay attention to everything equally, at the same time. And so, in a world that is constantly fighting to gain and indeed to keep our attention, what we are attentive to becomes one of our most important and influential decisions. Attention is a precious commodity that we should spend with care, saving its value for the most important of things.