JESSE IHDE

Though Josh and I have been married for almost ten years, I just recently met a new part of my new family this past Christmas.  Josh had not seen them in almost a decade.  After reuniting at Aunt Nel Nel’s, Josh’s cousins, Chase came down for a weekend and his sisters Nikki and Kiah came for almost a week.  And now Chase and his girlfriend Leah have taken up residence right here in Dallas, Texas!  Jingle Bam!  As the whole family prepares to descend upon the great state of Texas, I want to say welcome and tell you how grateful …

Over the next few days I will be hyper tweeting and over posting and also on a general high.  Catalyst is in Dallas.  What you will see when you walk into the doors of Bent Tree this week, are some young, cool geeks ready and set to uncover purpose, passion and meaning from some of the world’s most fantastic spiritual leaders.  I love every single second and here’s why:   Great Content We are all in search of amazing content; it’s the reason we scan tweets and posts and surf the web.  We want to be intrigued, inspired, educated and …

The biggest challenge we face every day is to let love in. Letting love in means we have to make room.  Letting love in means we have to dole out grace.  Letting love in requires margin.  And it doesn’t get easier with time.  There is just so much love waiting to make its way into our hearts; not necessarily being given to us by others but just the energy of it dancing between our souls and begging for the chance to transform one of us. This week I’m returning from a client trip to Cabo San Lucas where we stayed …

We are creating something worth creating.  And as always it is beautiful and complicated and messy and organic and authentic just the way we like it. You are flourishing in your strengths as a leader, a communicator, a do-er, an achiever, an encourager, a strategizer and a helper, with an under-promised and over-delivered outcome for each and every client, even the little guys. Maybe we are drinking our own spiked kook-aid but I just want another round.  So far this is fun and serious and way too much and also just right.   We are like characters from Winnie-the-Pooh who …

More often than not, Anne Lammot and Donald Miller magically give words to unwoven threads of my dreams and tiny inklings of incomplete thoughts that have not quite come together in my mind.  In this blog, Donald Miller unfolds the story of deciding to give his Storyline conference away, allowing each attendee to simply pay what they can afford to pay.  “Give it away now. God said to me.  I knew instinctively what God meant. He meant why wait till you have a foundation, till you have security to start giving your life away. Give it away while you are …