Monday
A busy season is when a marriage most needs to be fed, not a time it can be put on hold. You are three days from quarter close, the dashboard is red in two regions, and your spouse’s text, “Dinner Thursday?”, lights up your phone between calls. Nothing about the text is unreasonable; it just…
Speaking well of someone is one of the few things that blesses you, them, and everyone listening at the same time. You may have sat in a meeting where a colleague did something excellent, you knew it, and the conversation moved on before anyone said so out loud. C.H.E.W. with Me New here? What is CHEW? —…
As humans, we all tend to come down hard on others while allowing ourselves lack. A report turned in inexcusably late by an team member might seem excusable if you’re the one turning it in – if only everyone knew the workweek you’ve had! Often, we stumble in this way not because we are trying…
You have people who know your title, your win rate, and your calendar. You may not have a single person who knows what’s actually going on underneath any of it. Somewhere between the first promotion and the corner office, most high-performing believers trade real friendship for a very well-managed reputation. C.H.E.W. with Me New here? What…
You walked in the door tonight already running the mental math — what’s left on the list, who still needs a decision from you, what didn’t get closed out today. Your spouse said something to you within the first ninety seconds, and some part of you filed it the way you file everything else: as…
The complaint reaches Moses secondhand, the way most leadership problems do. Someone ran to Joshua first. Joshua, fiercely loyal and probably more protective of Moses’ standing than Moses is himself, brings it straight to the top: two men, Eldad and Medad, are prophesying in the middle of camp instead of at the tent of meeting…
You’ve told yourself you’re being faithful. Disciplined. Called to this. It’s 11:40 p.m., the deck is still open on your laptop, your spouse went to bed an hour ago, and somewhere underneath all that discipline is a feeling that has nothing to do with faithfulness at all. It’s fear of what happens if you stop.…
Most of us have memorized the second half of the fourth commandment and quietly ignored the first. Ask a room full of Christian executives to finish the sentence “remember the Sabbath day” and nearly everyone gets there. Ask them where their own workweek actually ends — what the edge of it looks like, what doesn’t…
Last night your spouse started a sentence about something hard, and you were already assembling a solution before they reached the period. It’s not that the fix you had in mind was wrong. It’s that nobody asked for it yet — and the reflex to supply it anyway is one you’ve spent years training at…
Tom had rehearsed the opening line of Monday’s 8am huddle three times in the parking lot before he ever walked in. He’d chosen his words carefully — calm, direct, no hedging. But by the time he sat down at the head of the table, his ops team had already read the whole meeting off his…