Ten Minute Poem Winners!
So I have been busier than normal. Sorry for not announcing these sooner! My bad.
I asked several friends to help me judge the entries by submitting poems they liked. Then one pushed back with a good point. The idea wasn't to make a great poem, but simply to write a poem in 10 minutes! In other words, you get an "A" just for participating.
So what to do to find the winners? We selected three numbers at random and selected the corresponding poem . Here are the three that won. If you wrote a winning poem, be sure to send me your mailing address so I can send you your winning loot.
And now ... (drum roll please) .. the winners are (cymbals crash)
Emily , The Demise of Indulgence, and Leah Nicholle!
Congratulations to all our winners and to everyone who took…
Wisdom On ... The Future
I'll be posting the winners of 10 Minute Poem Week later this week. Today, I have a Facebook question I thought I'd share along with my response. If you have any advice for Logan, please leave a comment.
hey mark im a freshman in high school and lately i have felt like god has really been trying to tell me he wants me to do his work for a living after high school and college but I'm not sure what he wants me to do but i know he wants me to help with his work in spreading his word. do you have any advise for me considering you probably went through the same thing at one point in your life?- Logan
Here is my response:
Hi…
2009 Ten Minute Poem Week
It's back! The week where we create poems in 10 minutes or less.Not familiar? Here's the basic idea.
God has made us to be creative but all too often we take our creativity too seriously and we don't create at all!
Here is how it works: Forget your lack of poetic instincts and write a poem in 10 minutes or less.
This is not designed to be a lengthy soul searching experience. Simply write a poem in 10 minutes and post it here. You can enter as many times as you'd like. At the end of the week, I'll pick a few of my favorites and send you some valuable prizes and gifts (probably books signed by me and some PlanetWisdom gear.) The prizes aren't half…
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Not so this year. Connor has been in a program that has led to some incredible changes in his social behavior that were so impressive and amazing to witness. He even interacted with me in ways I hadn't experienced since his infancy before the signs of autism began to show.
At one moment he gave me a big wet, open mouth kiss (his mouth was open mine was not!) and then gave my brother Josh…
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I just want to thank the PlanetWisdom Crew, Dutton and The Skit Guys for doing such a great job fillig in for me. I also want to thank all of those who attended for being so understanding of…
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Here's a picture of my brain (apparently it shows signs of higher intelligence so they are keeping me longer to study its intricacies). They don't know anything yet, and may not find anything either. But I do appreciate your prayers.
Wisdom On…New Year’s Resolutions
December is a good time to spend with God reflecting on the previous year. I have been doing this intentionally since 1989. I know some people hate New Year Resolutions, but if they are your kind of thing here are some things I've learned along the way that may be helpful.As New Year's Day 1989 approached, my friend Adam and I each prayerfully listed 89 goals we hoped to accomplish in 1989. I was surprised when I came to the end of the year how many of the 89 goals had been completed.
I wondered why? For year's I had been making New Year's resolutions and had never really kept (or remembered) them. Here's why I think I did (and I am going to take a long path to explain…
