Thoughts, devotions, and more from Jeffrey K. Ross, author of "Next Step Devotions"
In his novel You Can't Go Home Again, Thomas Wolfe wrote: "You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood ... back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame ... back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things …
Continue reading Leap Year Lesson #123: You’d Better Go Home Again
On Tuesday morning, if someone had suggested I take the bulk of the day off to stay at home, I would have given several reasons why I could not do that, including: It was only my second day back at work after eight days of vacation; There were still over 100 emails and dozens of …
There are different ways to evaluate how well a team fits together at work. There is the obvious measure of whether they get the work done that they are expected to do. What are their goals and how successfully do they accomplish them? Without that, other means of evaluation don't matter much. In addition to …
Continue reading Leap Year Lesson #117: Humor Can Be an Indicator of a Healthy Team
I’m writing this post from somewhere over Russia. It will take a while to process all that I have experienced these past eight days in China. I’m not sure how this experience will impact my future, my values, my hopes and dreams, my perspective on world affairs, or my faith and the practice of it. …
Continue reading Leap Year Lesson #113: There Is Always Someone Wiser Than You
If I have learned anything so far on this trip to China, it is that humans are more alike than different regardless of nationality. Sure, externals can be radically different. I don't look like any native Chinese I've seen. Still, there are so many experiences that are the same across cultures that it is a …
Continue reading Leap Year Lesson #112: We Are More Alike Than Different
