Rich Kao

Summer is over.  Fall is here (at least approaching).  I love the freshness of a new season.  The buzz of summer activities have died down.  The kids are in their school routine.  Everyone's back to work.  Clearly the rhythm of our culture cycles more around the 9-10 month academic year than the 12 month calendar year, even if you don't have kids in school or go to school yourself.    Summer is the time for vacations, and the other nine months is for sowing, reaping,  plowing and getting promotions.  It's all good.

I particularly like Fall because we can un-suspend the temporary psychological freeze we experience in the church world because of everyone being in and out.  Instead, we can get to the business of building and hunkering down.  I like that.  Play is good, but work is better.  Play is only satisfying when work has been put forth.  That's how God designed it. 

I'm looking forward to working with great people in our 5 Stones family to see big dreams come together in action-oriented ways.  My Fall prayer: "Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done."