the Eclectic Soul

Am I My Own Messiah?

Ok, so this is a restart of my blog that has been dormant for way too long.....

i was thinking about preaching this morning (after all that's what I do).  i began to look back on last years preaching schedule when i realized that i only took ONE vacation sunday last year....ONE!?  

to be sure, i had 3 other sunday's "off" but they were due to my traveling for 1) a youth retreat, 2) my annual denominational meeting, and 3) to invite a colleague to "rock the mic" for a particular message in a series i was doing.  

as a pastor in the united methodist church, i am entitled to four weeks vacation per year (which includes 4 sundays away from the pulpit).  i began to wonder what affect it has on my ability to communicate the central truths of the scriptures if i do not, from time to time, pull back and allow someone else to take the reigns.

as i look forward into 2014, you can bet that i plan to do a better job in this area of what we call in the biz, "self-care."  after all, am i my own messiah? no, thankfully, i'm not!

in faith, hope, & love,

E

Tech News From Across the Pond

I've owned an iPhone for a little over a month, and its safe to say that I continue to be impressed. This little device has really made my life more productive and more entertaining. It isn't a perfect device by any stretch of the imagination [but it is as close to it as I can imagine]. Even for all of its marvels, there are relatively simple things that it cannot do.

For example, it cannot copy calendar colors over from the desktop version of iCal.  Seems a really strange and very simply thing to be able to achieve with a native app.  There is no cut and paste feature that would allow one to cut and paste a link for example from the browser to a blog page.  Flash media still isn't supported on the iPhone.  These are just a few things that I have named.  

But I will say, even with it's small imperfections, and I do mean small, there is a vast world of tech junkie stuff at one's disposal.  The App Store is one of them

Now it seems that Nokia and Microsoft will be opening their own version of an applications store in 2009. This latest tech piece from the BBC annouces the intentions of these two technology giants to move into the sacred ground broken by Jobs and his band of merry men [and women].

One could only hope that either they, or someone will come out with syncable word-processor program for the iPhone that will allow you to not only read MS Word files but also edit them.  Also, it would be nice if Apple, instead of simply making an amazing Keynote remote, could also make a mini Pages and Numbers interface for the iPhone.

Well, for all you tech junkies I just thought I'd share some news.

Happy Monday to all!

Peace,

E