Mike Sansone

To Love, Live, Learn, and Lauch

Praying for Pastors

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Praying for Pastors from the Pew

A burden on my heart grows. I can feel the tears welling up – almost from within my cheeks. A burden to pray. Every day. For my pastor(s).

Every day I must pray For Pastor:

  • For protection.
  • For provision.
  • For preparation.
  • For renewed passion.
  • For health.
  • For family time.
  • For their personal pursuits.

I am blessed to count many pastors and ministry leaders as friends. Having once stood behind the desk, and now with a view from a pew, I have a sense of the trials and turmoil associated with such position.

Pastors are under continual spiritual attack, threats, and temptation. Oh, that we might pray daily for the person and practice of the pastor.

Oh, that we might.

Daily.

This burden I have is not to win over the pastors in my life. Or even to thank them (though I am grateful). The burden is a gift from God. He loves my pastor(s) more than I can ever imagine.

Yes Pastor, I love you. But … this one is for God.

It’s All ‘Free Time’

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“What do you do in your free time?”

It’s a question that raises my eyebrows. All of my time is free time.

Work: I love what I do and if I didn’t, I wouldn’t. I’d do something different. It’s a choice. Freedom.

Non-Work: I read. I write. I organize, tidy, unclutter, and generally tinker with how to improve life. Kind of like what I do for work, but without billable hours. It’s a choice. Freedom.

Escapes: I call it Sleep. I don’t set an alarm. If I oversleep, I’ve still got the sun beat by a couple of house. It’s a choice. Freedom.

Others: I am free to watch all the movies I want. I can watch all the ballgames I want. I can eat whatever I want. I can wear anything I want. But I don’t. Want, that is. It’s a choice. Freedom.

What do I do in my free time? Whatever I want. And to me, it’s all ‘free time’.

Photo via Pixabay

Quiet Writer for an Unquiet Mind

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Quiet Writer for an Unquiet Mind

A Practice of Prose in the Testing of a Tool

By writing in the manner in which I first grew accustomed (Just Spill!), I will be able to get more words from out of my head and onto the page.

Flowing, without much concern to the readability or legibility of the prose – until after it is written – will free me up to be faster as a typist, more clear as a generator of ideas, and more prolific as a writer.

The goal of my writing is to clear my unquiet mind. By wringing out words currently saturating my brain, I will be able to think more clearly. However, that is simply the selfish (primary?) reason.

Believing what I have to share can be of value to others, isn’t it then my responsibility to generously share what I have? To do otherwise would be boorishly hoarding.

Thus, to find a way to rid my head of these ideas and thoughts, while still capturing them for keepsake (or discard when necessary), is of premiere priority.

Finding the Chrome extension, Quiet Writer, might help me to continuously write as spilling comes to mind.

This is my first writing with this easy-to-use tool.

Photo on Pixabay by annazuc