Those seats around the sides of the balcony were excited to get used today. (Taken with Instagram at Elevation Church)

No one paints a better picture… (Taken with instagram)

One of the best lessons I’ve learned from my Pastor is timing matters.

Short version…read Numbers 13-14. 12 spies went out to take a look at the land God promised Israel, and only 2 were feelin’ it. 2 wanted to take what God said was theirs. 2 said the obstacles were real, but not too big for God.

But 10 said, “no”. 10 couldn’t believe it was possible to overtake the natives. 10 decided they weren’t interested…at least not yet.

So they all passed.

Until enough time passed and they decided, “maybe it’s time to go back and take what’s ours”.

But by that time, the window had closed. The opportunity had passed. The door was shut. Whatever the cliche, it was no longer an option. Because timing matters.

Moses wanted to lead Israel into the Promised Land, finally. The land the 2 wanted to enter into long ago. The 2, Joshua and Caleb, had good intentions, but it wasn’t enough to swing everyone over to their side. And consequently, everyone was shut out of the Promised Land, because they didn’t go the first time around when they were directed to–regardless of the circumstances.

Timing matters.

Don’t miss the opportunity, because you talk yourself out of it when the circumstances look too daunting.

You never lose God’s love. But you can lose out on opportunities when you don’t go when you’re supposed to go.

Here are some of the iPad apps people suggested when I asked for “apps you really love besides games”.

Disclaimer: these are all organic, nothing added…straight from the tweets…don’t even know if they exist.

Flipboard, Penultimate, Wunderlist, Evernote, Tune in Radio, Trip Advisor, Quickoffice Pro HD, Omnifocus, Skyfire, Bamboo Paper, Stats of the Union, Decibel Ultra, NIV Bible, SkyGrid, Adobe Ideas, Airvideo, Paperdesk, Dropbox, Memefy, Sugarsync, Epicurious, Netflix

I asked for a list of your favorite children’s book, and here were some of the responses. Thanks.

Just Me and My Dad

Go Dog Go

Box Car Children

The Poppy Series

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Little House Series

Charlotte’s Web

The Jesus Storybook Bible

Goodnight Moon

Owen

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day 

The Little Prince

The Other Side

Green Eggs and Ham

The Bug that Went Achoo

My Father’s Dragon

Amelia Bedelia Series

The Monster at the End of This Book

Tacky the Penguin

Oh, the Places You’ll Go

Skippy Jon Jones Books

Ping the Duck

Bear Snores On

Bear Wants More

Tuck Everlasting

Where the Wild Things Are

The Stupids

Miss Nelson Is Missing

Baby Beluga

I’ll Love You Forever

Nina Nina Ballerina

Clifford the Big Red Dog

The Bernstein Bears

Stargirl

Ring of Endless Light

Rainbow Fish

You Are My I Love you

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Winnie the Pooh

To Give a Pig a Party

The Digging-est Dog

Balloonia

Just Plain Fancy

Writing a kids book…and this is the character my girls came up with.

Why are these so loud and gross?

Today was the world premier of our new Elevation Design Team Show: Wok-e Tok-e. All I can say is probably no where to go but down from here.

Had fun with it, shared a lot of our Creative Process and hopefully learned a bunch about all the things we did poorly just trying to get it out the door. But I read something today that stated, “It’s better to be 1 for 20 than 0 for 0.” Agree. Glad we actually got something up live today, instead of sitting around constantly trying to perfect something that doesn’t even exist yet. Obviously, take this is context, but today was about launching…something. From here, we make it amazing.

Thanks for tuning in. Now go catch up with Wok-e Tok-e on Twitter:

twitter.com/woketoke

I knew all those games of Tetris would pay off… (Taken with Instagram at South Mountain State Park)

What I found when I went to pack the car this morning… (Taken with instagram)