hilarious birthday wishes

Friend : happy birthday Nancy!! couldnt write in on your fb because your profile is a pic of chicken and im afraid of chicken haha

but hope you have a safe, sound, blessed birthday :)
HAHAHAAHAhahahahaha.....

my keeendle

My reading list on my kindle:

finished | currently reading | in queue

The Hunger Games; Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire; Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay; Suzanne Collins

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People; Stephen Covey

The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy; Chris Martenson

Setting the Table; Danny Meyer

When I Don't Desire God; JPiper

For Your Joy; JPiper

Don't Waste Your Life; JPiper

ESV Bible

The Pursuit of God; A.W. Tozer

Crazy Love; Francis Chan

Drink This: Wine Made Simple; Dara Grumdahl

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership; Harvard Business Reviews

[samples]

Battlefield of the Mind: Joyce Meyer

Strengths-Based Leadership: Tom Rath

Atlas Shrugged; Ayn Rand

Radical: Taking Back Your Faith; David Platt

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People; HBR

A Game of Thrones; George R.R. Martin

Letters to a Young Chef; Daniel Boulud

The Essential Cocktail: Dale Degroff

wise words from Danny Meyer

Since the beginning, people have told me that in going into the restaurant business, I chose one of the hardest businesses in the world. True, a restaurant has all kinds of moving parts that make it particularly challenging. In order to succeed, you need to apply—simultaneously—exceptional skills in selecting real estate, negotiating, hiring, training, motivating, purchasing, budgeting, designing, manufacturing, cooking, tasting, pricing, selling, servicing, marketing, and hosting. And the purpose of all this is a product that provides pleasure and that people trust is safe to ingest into their bodies. Also, unlike almost any other manufacturer, you are actually present while the goods are being consumed and experienced, so that you can gauge your customers' reactions in real time. That's pretty complex, emotional stuff.

Why Work?

In nothing has the Church so lost her hold on reality as in her failure to understand and respect the secular vocation. She has allowed work and religion to become separate departments, and is astonished to find that, as a result, the secular work of the world is turned to purely selfish and destructive ends, and that the greater part of the worlds intelligent workers have become irreligious, or at least, uninterested in religion. But is it astonishing? How can any one remain interested in a religion which seems to have no concern with nine-tenths of his life?

- Dorothy Sayers

making amends w/ the working life

People need work. They need its challenge, its product, its achievement, its aesthetic and emotional rewards, its relational dynamics, its drama, its routine, its remuneration. Reduce the workplace only as a soapbox for evangelism, and you destroy a gift of God. For that is what work is, a gift.

- William Hendricks