PatrickMead.net

It’s all Greg England’s fault. He sent me a musician joke today and got me started. There are tons of them out there. Add your favorites.
Greg’s submission: How do you define perfect pitch? It’s when you throw your banjo into the dumpster and it hits the accordian on the first bounce.
How do you get a [...]

An hour late, due to thunderstorms that wracked the skies above Atlanta, my flight took off, headed for home, Motown, Detroit City. The man beside me talked to me nonstop because… well… that’s just what people beside me always do. 
He wasn’t a happy man. He despaired at all that was wrong in the world. He [...]

The Marathon week is nearly done. I’ve had seven flights since Tuesday and have two more tomorrow before I pile into my Sonata and head home to Kami. Yea! Your prayers are working. There have been a thousand ways this week could have gone wrong and yet… it hasn’t. Even as I sat in Houston [...]

Call me Marathon Man. Today I had my elders’ meeting at 7AM and the staff meeting at 11AM. Then, this afternoon, I have to mow my lawn and get ready to host our small group. After that, I pack for the long week ahead. 
Tomorrow morning I’ll leave around 6AM and head towards Detroit airport. I’m [...]

A neighbor and I were playing golf yesterday — my first time out since last September — when he asked me if I had ever worked in the corporate world. I wasn’t really sure! I’ve held so many jobs — some of them for a very short time — that I wasn’t sure how to [...]

Jesus asked "What will a man give in exchange for his soul?" It was a rhetorical question because the answer is way too obvious: it is absurd to think of trading something eternal for something that will be in a landfill in a few years… but we do it anyway. Someone made a comment about [...]

I am blessed to serve with some of the world’s best elders, several of whom served honorably in the worst days of Vietnam. One of them (I’ll leave him unnamed) did some of the more classified type of work, shall we say. He brought me Marcus Luttrell’s book, "Lone Survivor" last Wednesday night. At first, [...]

As most of you know, I love a good mystery or thriller. I’m not a fan of "cozies," those mysteries where an elderly aunt solves the mystery without living the drawing room. I like mysteries where the hero is powerful, has a good moral center, and gets up to his eyeballs in trouble (as Johnny [...]

I’ve been asked to comment on the Pickens Plan being touted in commercials, on the internet, and on news talk shows. Pickens has a website up with a five minute video you can watch where he explains his plan succinctly. It is, briefly, based on moving natural gas out of heating and power plants and [...]

Josh preached in a village in Uganda yesterday. While they were there, a man came to Sara Barton asking her for help in naming his new baby. After some discussion, he decided to name it after my daughter, Kara. Now there is another Kara, another treasured Princess, and part of us will forever be linked [...]