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I am back to writing about about a Lyft ride I took to DIA last Sunday morning. It is early Saturday morning, and I am on our lanai in Kauai. I confess to telling my Lyft riders “You are supporting my travel addiction”. It usually makes them smile. As I write I am listening to […]

About 20 months ago Lyft sent out a notice of a new service called Lyft-Line.   They had test marketed the concept in San Francisco and declared it a big success. The idea is that you take complete strangers in the same general direction.  Somehow through the magic of algorithms, your Driver app is able […]

This past Wednesday I decided to “do a little driving in the burbs”.  I sat in my driveway, turned on the app.  It didn’t take long.  Mandy at “Streamers Coffee” .5 miles away.   I thought 💭 “What, a coffee shop this close to me”?  Sure enough, right there on 86th, sits a dapper commercial […]

Lyft sent my “stats update” yesterday and it showed that I had given 3997 rides in 26 months.  I decided that before I could watch football today I had to get three rides.   This was complicated by the reality that I wanted to drive to Greeley for our monthly ‘Men’s Breakfast’ at First Christian.  […]

This was my third New Year’s Eve as a Lyft driver.  Years one and two were what I would call ‘exciting and profitable’.  I had experienced none of the nightmare scenarios that you might expect; they were truly fun. It was like going to a bunch of parties without any of the hassle.  This year […]

I wrote my first Lyftingmeup blog 364 days ago.  I launched my first attempt on  January 1, 2017 after lots of encouragement from my two kids Amy and Mateo, and my friends Jim and Chris. “Dad you need to write this stuff down”!  It has become part of my weekly ritual.  I know that retelling […]

“Do not be afraid; for see—I am bringing you good news of great joy, for ALL people”. Luke We are almost there.  I am not sure which day I love most, today or tomorrow.  As I think about it I choose… BOTH!!! Tonight we get to imagine once again sitting around a campfire, with the […]

  I am going to get my red car inspected next week and do a little Lyft driving from my new perch in the ‘burbs’.  But this week my topic comes from the 3rd week of Advent, where we look at Joy.  Joy just happens, you can’t manufacture it, drink it or smoke it and […]

Story number three from my days of the Enid State School Chaplaincy.  We had five worship services every Sunday.  Each one was tailored to a certain population of the institution.   Music was central to connecting these folks, whose sense of the holy was not about what they knew, but more about what they felt.  […]

The challenge of writing from this context is that I have spent 40 years in pastoral ministry and two years driving for Lyft.  On this six week sabbatical from Lyft driving, I am trying to honor the fact that my blog audience is a ‘non church’ gig.  I have very much enjoyed the challenge of […]