The Crazy and Calm at Seasons Weekend: Summer
People often ask me what makes Seasons Weekend so special. To answer that question more fully, I’d like to give you a window into one of the exercises from our Summer Weekend in Newport Beach in July. On Friday evening everyone wrote down something that creates “crazy” in their life. It didn’t take long as a group to list issues big and small and identify the things that pull us into the crazy. Despite this list coming from a small group of participants, I think it is univer
The Cape of Good Hope
In 1487 the explorer Batholomeu Dias set sail from Portugal to find a sea route to the riches of the East. He was forced ashore at the southernmost tip of Africa, and he named the place Cape of Storms, alluding to the tempest he had endured. He was not able to continue his journey, but he was so convinced that he had discovered the route he was looking for that he later changed the name to Cape of Good Hope. Often our hope lies in the same spot as our storms. This promontory
