Great post. What's challenging is this approach is sometimes counter-cultural in many office settings. Booking meetings back to back, where the norm is people getting to meetings or conference calls late because no time in between is scheduled, is normal opporating procedure in a national non profit culture where I spend much of my time. I do benefit from the practices you described. I need to discipline myself to create these opportunities more consistently during work hours. When it comes to pursuing God, my family and relationships, I set aside the time. In the more professional setting I do get pulled into the back to back meeting culture. Reflecting on this was a good reminder.

I’m looking forward to listening to this with my wife. Although, I think she may miss the sarcasm of the first essay. I was writing an April Fools’ Day post on my lonely, baby blog called Bone Fire! (shameless) and included a link to the download and tweeted about it as well. The "Fools for Christ?" post is here. I hope things go well on CNN.