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Last Christmas at Lifelink Memphis, we talked a lot about slowing down and keeping Christmas meaningful. We even offered a series of classes on what that might look like.

I know this because I taught them.

I was really excited about it and I remember thinking after last Christmas that my family had made a good start at slowing down and that this year we would really nail the whole restful, meaningful, intentional holiday thing.

But…that didn’t really happen.

I have a confession to make. The reason I haven’t written here in so long is not because I am too busy, or because I’m too tired, or even because I’m too absorbed in my secret life as a superhero. (Although it is quite time consuming.)

I’m afraid it’s due to a much more mundane and well….rather petty reason.

It’s because I don’t like this software.

It’s true.

On the evening of December 24th, as it did on various parts of the planet, Christmas came to Lifelink Memphis.

There it was met by a unique assemblage of individuals: locals and travelers, friends and strangers, people from assorted zip codes and some who whose address was simply "the street."

I would like to take this opportunity to direct your attention to A Short Conversation With God, a post I have recently unleashed upon my blog The Ominous Comma.

It's funny and fairly meaningful. I think you might like it.

Happy Friday

-Brent

What if you reached into your pocket one day and discovered an ATM?

Not the whole machine, but rather just the cash slot, connected wirelessly somehow to the national treasury.*

What if every time you put your hand into this pocket you received a crisp, non-counterfeit hundred dollar bill?

What if having realized the impossibility of hording a fortune so vast, you proceeded to give those bills away to everyone you met?

Would you want or need a special tee-shirt to let everyone know you were Financially Endowed?