by Rhett Smith | May 17, 2013 | Intentional Living
Sunday, May 19, 2013 is a big day for my family. It marks the two year anniversary of us being debt free. Two years ago I wrote the post Today We Are Debt Free: $75,000+ Paid Off in 31 Months. In that post I chronicled our journey of wanting to become debt free. It...
by Rhett Smith | Jul 20, 2010 | Marriage
This last week my wife gave birth to our second child, a baby boy. The birth of a child is an amazing event, but I am hard pressed to find an event that better brings to focus one’s limitations in life, quickly eliminating many choices and options, but therefore...
by Rhett Smith | Jan 21, 2010 | Marriage
[image by Adam Foster] “That’s not who I married!” It’s a response I often hear as I sit across from couples in therapy. At this point in the relationship one, or both of the spouses has become angered, disillusioned, sad (name the...
by Rhett Smith | Jul 10, 2009 | Marriage
“For a person is the single most limitless entity in creation, and if there is anything that is even more unlimited and unrestrained in its possibilities than is a person, it is two people together. Not everyone is as fond of solitude as I have been. And...
by Rhett Smith | Jul 3, 2009 | Technology
So I wrote this post back in November of 2008, Community Organizer+Grasp of Web 2.0/Social Media=President Elect Obama. And then I saw this on July 1, 2009. And then this tweet by Tony Steward on July 2, 2009. #churchonline political campaigns found leveraging online...
by Rhett Smith | Mar 16, 2009 | Leadership
“Everything in the universe has a nature, which means limits as well as potentials, a truth well known by people who work daily with the things of the world. Making pottery, for example, involves more than telling the clay what to become. The clay presses back...
by Rhett Smith | Feb 12, 2009 | Leadership
One of my favorite writers, thinkers, philosophers, theologians, psychologists is Soren Kierkegaard. Ever since reading Fear and Trembling when I was 22 he has continued to profoundly shape my life and thinking. So it is not surprising that in the book Depression and...
