You Can’t Be Present and Busy

I rushed to a conference last week. I was leading a workshop the next day and didn’t want to be that guy: the guy who only shows up for his workshop but skips everything else. Truthfully, though, I didn’t have the time. I wished I could have skipped the evening and stayed at home.

But I was there and started to listen. It turns out that I needed to hear what the main speaker, Karen Reed, had to say.

Reed spoke about her ministry in East Vancouver. She spoke about living faithfully in a commun...