Happy Belated (because I’ve been taking a break from the blog) New Year!
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve sent you anything. Sorry about that. Or you’re welcome, depending on your point of view.
There are big plans (editor’s note: “big plans” is definitely an exaggeration) for Junkyard Wisdom™ in 2025, and I’d value your suggestions.
First, there will be a traditional Easter devotion. Woohoo! Should Sully show up?
But the Easter series is followed by an untraditional and perhaps uncomfortable devotion series. My imagination gets a little, um, expansive.
Imagine Matthew, Mark, Luke and John walking into a pool hall to argue about who, exactly, should write the story of Jesus. From there it gets even stranger. To be honest, the reader has to suspend reality a bit, and I’m not sure this series will go over well. But in a junkyard way, it will be authentic. And fun.
Second, later in the year, a second devotion book will be released! It will for Lent this time, but traditional protestants can call it Easter if they insist. Whatever you call it, the book will have 40ish daily devotions based on a road trip with Jesus to Jerusalem (maybe in a pickup like the image above?).
Third, I’m considering another Junkyard Wisdom trip to Belize in late May or early June. I haven’t done one since 2019! As before, these trips will focus on wealth, generosity, faith, justice, and how the heck to follow Jesus in the midst of it all. Let me know if you are interested.
Fourth, I might do a one-day workshop later in the year (November?). The workshop would be an abbreviated version of the Belize trip, hosted in Northern California. Interested?
Fifth, what do you think of restarting my podcast? It was fun to do back in the day, and the metrics showed that people were listening. But podcasts have a major limitation: I can’t interact with the listener. It felt like speaking into an empty room. If there was value for the listener, then great. But how can I know that there was?
Sixth, this blog will continue to the anchor for the Junkyard Wisdom world. There are millions of readers (editor’s note: maybe thousands) who make huge life decisions based on these posts (um, no). I’m curious, though, what would you like me to write about? Jesus? Sully? Wine? Politics? The teleological argument for the existence of God? Ice cream?
Seventh … well okay to be honest I don’t have a seventh. But being a church kid means it feels like every list needs seven items.
Looking forward to reading your thoughts!
Oh, and in case you are wondering, I turned off comments for this blog. Just too much drama (which is another way of saying there were too many anally retentive knuckleheads).
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