Colossians 3:12-14 (NIV)

12Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

Swing dancing challenging and fun.

Step, step, triple step, step, step, triple step. Seems easy enough. I am finding the swing dancing experience challenging but fun. And now I am tired.

Simple but important.

Hebrews 3:13 (NIV)

13But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.

Angst of inventory

Twice a year at my job, we have the dreaded store wide inventory. It's not a difficult job to complete, it's just a really boring and tedious task. One of the biggest complaints I have is...well I think that's enough of that. I am just glad that it is over, at least till February.

Prayer group at my house.

My faith has been encouraged by people wanting to pray with me. The prayer group is starting out small, but tonight we had our largest group yet, with 8 people. I started this group because, the Holy Spirit has been convicting me to pray more.

Followers of Jesus need to pray and read the bible everyday. I have made the excuse that I don't have time, or have just been lazy. If something is important, then you will make time for it. I have a better day when I begin it with prayer. There are still challenges and stressful situations, but I have Jesus to give me strength.

Prayer is not just asking for things, although there are certainly good things to ask for. Prayer is about building relationship with the creator. It's submitting to God's will and not my own. Prayer is still something I am trying to figure out.

God wants to use His people to touch the world in a powerful way, but we need to pray and find out what God wants us to do. How are we going to know if we don't pray?

my new hobby

I have a new goal for myself, become good at swing dancing. I have tried to learn how to swing dance in the past, but I didn't make it important enough to continue in learning the skill. Recently, I have taken some steps (pun intended) to learn how to dance. I am finding that it is fun and there are cool people at the dancing venues. Not to mention beautiful women.
The dance events are usually around $6, which is a lot less than most things out there. So, here is to me learning how to swing dance.

Bridge Pedal 2007

i rode the bridge pedal this year and had a lot of fun. it made me realize that I want to ride more organized rides, ones where people know how to ride their bikes.

Happy Birthday Athena.

I am blessed to have Athena as my friend. Her cheerful attitude and sense of humor is a blessing to me and those who know her. So here is to Athena and another year.

Flower power.

Today was my day off, well sort of. I ended up going in to work to help out for a few hours. The great part of today was the morning wake up from my roommate Aaron. I had woken up but had stayed in bed till 10am. Aaron woke me from my laziness and we ate breakfast together at La Bonita. Have you ever had a breakfast burrito? They are great. I'm sure it had 1,000 calories, but you only live once. And why not start off the day right than with half of the daily allowance of caloric intake.

If I could only do something like this.

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The sign of a good training run.

What is the sign of a good training run? If it's having your shirt and shorts completely soaked with sweat, then I had a great run today.