Archive for May, 2008
21 May 2008 | 03:46 PM
The Unfairness of Life
~~~Day’?s Verse:I’ve learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances. I’m just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I’ve found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty. Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in [...]
18 May 2008 | 11:23 AM
Accomplishment
~~~Day’?s Verse:If you don’t go all the way with me, through thick and thin, you don’t deserve me. If your first concern is to look after yourself, you’ll never find yourself. But if you forget about yourself and look to me, you’ll find both yourself and me.Matthew 10:38-39 (context)~~~ How would you feel if one [...]
16 May 2008 | 02:52 PM
Nominally Clean
~~~Day’?s Verse:Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin”?Proverbs 20:9~~~When it comes to washing hands, my Mom raised me right — of course I always do after I go to the bathroom. Who wouldn’t? Turns out, lots of women wouldn’t. Well, let me rephrase that. One gal I [...]
12 May 2008 | 03:29 PM
WHAT-A-Palooza?!
~~~Day’?s Verse:There is far more at stake here than religion. If you had any idea what this Scripture meant—’I prefer a flexible heart to an inflexible ritual’—you wouldn’t be nitpicking like this.Matthew 12:6-7~~~ View Larger Map Only one interesting thing to report on the ride from Sunday. Entering Ashby, MA, I encountered a large, handmade [...]
10 May 2008 | 05:41 PM
Some More Thoughts
~~~Day’?s Verse:“First things first. Your business is life, not death. Follow me. Pursue life.”Matthew 8:22 (context)~~~ I was going to write a blog about how awful my week has been this week to explain why I haven’t updated for a while now, but then I realized nobody would want to read that. We all have [...]
4 May 2008 | 03:44 PM
Ugh.
~~~Day’?s Verse:Love God, your God, with your whole heart: love him with all that’s in you, love him with all you’ve got!Deuteronomy 6:5~~~ If you read nothing else, skip to Number 4. I want to hear what you guys think of that craziness. That said… This ride involved more than its fair share of many—well, [...]
3 May 2008 | 02:26 PM
More Bike Stuff!
~~~Day’?s Verse:Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, [...]
