good ideas...

My friend and next-door neighbor, Brian Jones, forwarded this post from Marshall Goldsmith. It's a good one, and certainly speaks to me. So often, adding our "good" ideas to those of others - whether to someone reporting to us, a working group of peers, or our children - is disheartening to them and really only intended to show how smart or clever we are. ouch.

When You Should Keep Your Ideas To Yourself

Brian is a leadership consultant with Pat Lencioni's "The Table Group."
http://www.tablegroup.com/consulting/partners/

Gene Robinson and the BCP

Scot McKnight had a good post comparing Bishop Gene Robinson's prayer to open the inaugural concert and the collect for the Third Sunday of Epiphany which we prayed yesterday, and referencing Fleming Rutledge's comments (which Robert had shown me last week) -

There was quite a dust-up about the prayers at the Inauguration. Analysis of the prayers of others is not something I'm fond of, so I stayed back but this week's prayer in The Book of Common Prayer -- to be repeated by all Anglicans and Episcopalians -- speaks volumes about Bishop Gene Robinson's inaugural prayer...

To keep reading go to Scot's blog at Jesus Creed

Lily Red Sox

One of the better Christmas pics! Beautiful Lily Sofia sporting her (papa's) team's hat :)