What's the Big Idea?

Every few months it is important to plan the big ideas.  I've spent the bulk of the weekend writing, among other things:

Sermon plans through January 2012
A Stewardship brochure
An outline for yet another book proposal

Ideas, of course, don't actually come in light bulbs.  I find they usually arrive from reading, from song lyrics, from conversations, from silence.  In short, they just show up unannounced.  Some of them are like unexpected guests.  You let some of them in the door.  Others you turn away.  A few of them you send down the road to the neighbors or you put them up in a hotel.

Being one week away from a vacation, I'm trying to put aside the big ideas for a few days.  Take a rest.

Don't want that light bulb to pop!