Tina and I had the opportunity to minister at a young adults’ retreat last weekend. Actually, she did most of the ministering, preaching four sessions and connecting in a deep way with the thirty-five twenty-somethings who were there. I led one session on spiritual practices and crafting a rule of life. Between Tina’s morning message on “Faith as Pilgrimage” and my Rule of Life session, the organizers of the retreat created a spacious two-hour “moment” where participants coul

“Better is one handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.” Ecclesiastes 4:6, TNIV As a young man I worked for my uncle, a plumber. One day we landed a job for a new restaurant in a small hotel. Our project involved something we had never done: cutting a hole in the twelve-inch-thick concrete slab so we could install a floor sink. We rented a concrete-saw, including the special “sintered” blade, which was embedded with diamond crystals to make