Love my AirPods Pro 3’s but this morning was the second time I’ve had them in the case overnight only to show up at the gym in the morning and find out the airpods’ batteries were completely run down. A glitch in smart charging maybe? Super annoying, regardless.

For the Vestry meeting approving the annual budget and policy updates prior to the parish meeting, we pray to the Lord.

Lord, hear our prayer.

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Unbelievable second half between the Bears and Packers. What a comeback. There will be football at Soldier Field again next week!

2026 Reads: Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence by Diana Butler Bass 📚

I found her chapter on Jesus the “way” where she describes being trapped in the world of Calvinist evangelicalism and the painful path leaving it to be particularly resonant.

2026 Reads: Katabasis by R. F. Kuang 📚

Our church launched a new podcast yesterday. Interesting to see some quick Day 1 statistics. As a longtime podcast listener I just default to thinking about the download count. But social sharing was mostly via YouTube, and the YT video has 2x views compared to our downloads.

Congrats to UW-River Falls on winning the D3 football national championship! North Central had only lost two games since 2019, both of them national championship games. Now they’ve lost three! UWRF’s QB Kaleb Blaha looks special.

Steelers/Ravens looks like a good game, but this D3 championship game between UW-River Falls and North Central (Naperville) is just fantastic. River Falls up 10 in the 4th quarter, aiming for their first-ever national title.

Headed to a funeral this morning for our long-time neighbor who died last week. A delightful man who lived a long, full life. We’ll miss him.

www.cedarmemorial.com/Obituary/…

Back in the office this morning after two solid weeks off. The break was nice. Today is a quiet catch-up day before the year starts in earnest on Monday. Here goes nothin'.