A New Plan
This is the testimony that I gave to my home church for a sermon this week on restoration. I do not have a lot to add to what I said on this video for the purposes it was used and edited. Obviously there is a great deal more detail to my life in general and the events I described on this video specifically – but the point for today was to illustrate a contemporary and living example of Bob Shirock’s sermon on Peter’s Restoration. I am humbled and grateful to be giving this testimony in front of a congregation that has come to mean a great deal to Stacey and I. My prayer...
Read MoreSetting Expectations
The first job I had that required a lot of travel landed me some first rate advice from a seasoned road warrior who was my boss at the insurance company. His sage quip was something I was reminded of today, Wednesday and too many other days to recall since. The picture here was taken from about 35,000 en route from Tallahassee, Florida to Atlanta, Georgia. I missed the 3:30p flight because the airplane filled up (allegedly) between when I asked at the luggage intake and when I asked on the other side of security. Since literally no one was in front of me at security in the small...
Read MoreNASCAR and the GOP Primary
In the movie Days of Thunder (1990) a notable explanation of stock car racing was given that directly applies to what I am seeing down in the GOP South Carolina primary. In fact, this whole race and the one I observed from the inside of a campaign in 2008 remind me a lot of a good traditional and hard fought NASCAR race. In the movie Harry Hogge yells into the driver’s ear, “Cole, you’re wandering all over the track! “ Cole Trickle responds, “Yeah, well this son of a bitch just slammed into me.” Harry Hogge laughs and educates his ambitious but inexperienced racer, “No,...
Read MoreWhat a Difference 4 Years Can Make
The picture here was taken four years ago today. It is a picture of Governor Mitt Romney, his wife Ann, son Josh and I talking as we left New Hampshire after coming in second (Sen. John McCain won with 37% of the vote). We were on a flight directly back to Michigan (the next primary) and were in fact talking strategy as the reporter from the New York Times noted in the article they published. At the time the focus was balancing frustration and strategy and trying to put the best foot forward to start winning the primaries rather than finishing in second. The media immediately called the...
Read More2011
2011 was a special year for me. Not special in a normal way but special in an extraordinary way. In fact, special wasn’t even the right word for it. Smashing comes a lot closer. Exquisite for sure. Exceptional and memorable and at the same time uncommon, unique and unusual. Particular days were peculiar. The events and circumstances I experienced were among the best of my life and at the same time I recall with each breath what brought me here. Smashing is a better adjective for describing 2011 because that’s what happened this year. Every notion I had of myself or...
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