Sounds and Echoes

With the sessions of the Willow Creek Leadership Summit still ringing in my ear and having taken up Bill Hybels' call to read something of value at least 30 minutes every day, I seem to be in caught in a barrage of truth and catalysts. Tim Keller's talk on The Prodigal God and the book from which it came (and I just read) redefined not only the Prodigal Son parable (Luke 15:11), but have me starting to constantly evaluate whether I am skating by trying to follow the rules or serving at the pleasure of the Father. (More on the Prodigal God in a later post.)

For the second year in a row, I was asked to be a panel judge for presentations by seniors at the high school program that I volunteer with. As I evaluating was evaluating presentations based on the rubric I'd been handed, I realized I was also evaluating them on something different.

For those of you who don't know, I'm an team member on the West Philly Hybrid X Team, which is competiting in for the $10M Progressive Automotive X-Prize.

10 hours and 45 minutes from now I will be starting a completely new life. No other waypoint has been marked with as much planning, music, food, or fanfare, though I doubt I will truly absorb much of it at all. 

Last week I was particularly struck by a story recounted in "Jesus For President" where Shane Claiborne talks about a situation that he was fairly certain he'd handled the way Jesus would have. This got me to thinking about what I'm doing every day, and how it measures up.