Maybe Friday is a good day to reflect on the thoughts of the last week. Or maybe Friday is just lazy and I’m reluctant to be productive on some of the things I know I need to get done. Here are some thoughts from the past week.

Wedding planning is in full effect. Planning and preparing for a wedding is crazy. A friend recently told me that him and his wife didn’t know what to do with themselves after they got back from the honeymoon. I’m looking forward to that space.

### Work thoughts
Large public companies are generally focused on three things: profits, returning value to the shareholders, and their customers. As an employee of a large company, your role and tenure at the company are for the most part controlled by people you don’t know and forces you can’t possibly comprehend. My experience has been that large companies sometimes behave like empires– they attempt to define reality for everyone involved and sometimes they loose the ability to distinguish between the world they are creating and the one they are trying to manipulate. Maybe I’m cynical… If you think so, show me a public company who’s primary focus is something other than profits.

### Dorothy Day
I was struck by an commentary I was reading about Dorothy Day. Here is the summary that he put together about her philosophy on insolvable social problems.
> To change your life, change the way you process experience. To change the way you process experience change the way you live. We don’t think our way into a new life, we live our way into new thoughts.
I thought this was a fascinating insight that also applies to formation. The quote comes from Robert Inchausti’s book Subversive Orthodoxy: Outlaws, Revolutionaries, and Other Christians in Disguise.

### Advocacy
Finally, Alice and I have been trying to think through how we can be advocates for family, friends, or those who are in need as we make the transition to a married couple and care for each other. We were both struck by the language that Jesus used in Matt 25 in the parable about the sheep and the goats. It seem like Jesus was taking things very personally when he says “whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.” Maybe as advocates we should take it personally when those for whom we are advocating are not cared for or treated with dignity.