Olympics and impact…

When I’ve watched the Olympics over the last week or so, I’ve been amazed at the number of people involved in every aspect of what goes on.

It’s truly an amazing event to watch.

I talked a little bit yesterday about the Olympics.

I always look forward to watching and am disappointed when it’s over.

It made me think about impact…

Olympic trials…

To make it to any olympic event, you have to go through an incredibly challenging process to get to the level of even trying out for it. 

The trial starts with heart, practice and an almost flawless execution, that very few are able to perform. 

The life we live has an olympic trial often…

It must be trial week - look at my post about gratefulness...

Mud bombs and growth…

The other day I was driving down the highway and saw a cloud of dust erupt, about a tenth of a mile ahead of me. It was strange, but cool to see. I thought someone blew an engine, or NASCAR had left a bunch of that “track-dry” stuff on the highway.

A moment latter it happened again and enveloped my car (I drive a white Charger, and I just washed it, so I was not thrilled - speeding up through it helped me feel better). After I got through the cloud of smoke, I realized it was a construction truck that had dried mud on its mud-flaps - a crazy place for mud - and it kept falling off in huge “mud bombs!”

Still cool to watch, but didn’t want it on my car…

Belaying and others…

Thanks to Roy Lindman on Wikipedia for sharing this image - he gets the credit.

I posted recently about how I was able to go rock climbing for the first time, and how I really was belaying more than I was climbing. Belaying is basically holding he rope for the climber, so they don fall to their death.

Belaying taught me a few things…

$100 and generosity…

I can’t believe it!

Someone walked up to me and just handed me $100!

Really, it’s true.

They just handed me five $20 bills, and said they hoped it helped.

They’re not rich, and they don’t walk around with money falling out of their pockets, but they gave to my family, because they felt lead to help.

They made a choice…

Birthday’s and coffee…

I had a birthday recently...don’t ask my age. ;)

It doesn’t bother me to add another year. I like the experiences that I’m blessed to have each year and the opportunity to change and grow. A lot of folks hate getting older, but I don’t act my age, so I’m not really impacted by it, like many. 

I just love life and am excited about the next steps that God has for me.

I also love Starbucks coffee… Small Coffee, Disaster, Perfect - some examples...

Superfluous Saturday…

This was from a college friend's Facebook page, a while ago...

Sometimes I think that my Saturday posts are superfluous (unnecessary), so I often put something simple, silly or full of satire (like the alliteration there - could be a good sermon outline). 

So what about today?

Do you really need me to post something today? No

Does a Saturday go on without my posts? Yes

So why do I write something?

I write because there may be one person that needs…

Rock climbing and a smiley face…

This smiley face was near the top of a very difficult climbing wall.

Recently I was able to go to a rock climbing facility with a group of our teens. We had a blast. I had never been before, so it every aspect of it was interesting to me. 

I got to belay most of the time, which was actually much more fun than you may think. I’ll talk about that another day.

Today, I think about how life may be hard, but you can still smile…

Bee stings leave red marks, too...or two…

I got stung again…

I know, stop complaining about a little bee sting, it’s no big deal. I get it, but if you read my blog, you know that I seem to learn crazy lessons from just about every little thing that happens to me, including a bee sting.

In the last 4 months, I have now been stung twice, and I don’t remember getting stung since I was a kid, and I was likely tougher then...

If you read my first post about my bee sting on the head, you know that I learned a few important things.

In this case I learned some more…

Fat wheels and a purposeful life…

I saw this tractor and thought “His crops must be ruined!”

He’s killing most everything in the field with those fat tires.

Oh, wait, that tractor has a different purpose…

It’s meant for fun, entertainment, excitement, not for industrial use.

Sometimes we get our purposes mixed up…