Archive for April, 2008
30 April 2008 | 08:05 AM
Random Thoughts
~~~Day’?s Verse:This is scary: You can tame a tiger, but you can’t tame a tongue—it’s never been done. The tongue runs wild, a wanton killer. With our tongues we bless God our Father; with the same tongues we curse the very men and women he made in his image. Curses and blessings out of the [...]
27 April 2008 | 01:23 PM
More Riding. Blah.
~~~Day’?s Verse:Here is a simple, rule-of-thumb guide for behavior: Ask yourself what you want people to do for you, then grab the initiative and do it for them. Add up God’s Law and Prophets and this is what you get.Matthew 7:12~~~ My route today involved 1,069 feet of elevation gain over about 3 miles. That [...]
27 April 2008 | 05:03 AM
Ian’?s Bike Choice
~~~Day’?s Verse:You’?re blessed when you’?re content with just who you are — no more, no less. That’?s the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can’t be bought.Matthew 4:5~~~ As you may remember, while ago, somebody stole Ian’s old bike from in front of our apartment. This loss disappointed us more because we [...]
22 April 2008 | 06:04 AM
Road Treasures
~~~Day’?s Verse:Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.Proverbs 11:28~~~ Ian hates it when I pick up junk off the road. He thinks it’?s gross, even though he has benefited from it — I found what has become his favorite scarf abandoned in a parking lot. I [...]
19 April 2008 | 03:55 PM
Why I Hate iPods
~~~Day’s Verse:All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need.Acts 2:44-45~~~ Everybody loves mp3 players, the iPod most of all: So (relatively) cheap, so handy, so portable in a way CD players, with their requisite huge books of CDs, never could [...]
16 April 2008 | 04:20 PM
A Hypothesis
~~~Day’s Verse:My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God’s Spirit. Galatians 5:16~~~ Hypothesis: When people go outside to exercise, a woman is more likely to walk, and choose to go with a friend. A man, on the other hand, is more likely to go running by himself — or, alternatively, join a [...]
13 April 2008 | 03:22 AM
More Training Rides
~~~Day’?s Verse:Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you.Galatians 5:1~~~ Saturday I got a ton done. Between 7:30 and 10:00 I made banana bread and a huge breakfast for myself (two eggs, four pieces of bacon, two pieces [...]
